Study of Air Flow on Natural Ventilation at Tawang Station Semarang

Abstract

Tawang Station is a colonial building that still functions as it should, located in the city of Semarang. This building has wide and many openings to adapt to the local climate. The design of this building aims to achieve the comfort of the inner space. This study will examine air movement entry in a room with current climatic conditions. Data collection methods used are surveys, media, and related literature. After that, the data is processed by simulating the model with Autodesk Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) software. The analysis will show simulation air movement in the natural ventilation system in several sample rooms at Tawang Station. Then produce a description that is relevant to the theory. This simulation will prove that natural ventilation in each room is influenced by the direction of air movement, the surrounding atmosphere, and the placement of ventilation, which then also affects the comfort in the room.