URBAN SUSTAINABILITY – MICROCLIMATE AND UNIQUE WIND ROSE WIND PATTERN

Each geographic location has its unique wind rose and microclimate characteristics. Furthermore same geographic location will at certain stages of building/development, change its microclimate characteristic. So such changes should be predicted, closely observed, and altered to best service built form and its inhabitants.

Calculated methods of such change are available and used widely overseas.

Wind tunnels, wind turbulences, uplifting winds, prevailing winds are only some of the outcomes how built form can alter its immediate surrounds and its microclimate. Best solutions to such outcomes are systems where the wind is manipulated to best serve cooling and heating changes, used to power small or large wind turbines, strategically positioned windows, and so on.

Strategic placement of passive ventilation systems can be created from high thermal mass elements, columns, or cavities and using the difference in temperature to extract hot air out of the building and bring replacement fresh air in.

Some negative effects of wind can be corrected by smart housing orientation, location of open spaces, road alignment, barriers, mounds, valleys, vegetation, and many more.