A study on the effectiveness of wind-induced natural ventilation and shading analysis on a residential apartment typology

Abstract

Residential apartments in India designed with prototype designs and natural ventilation based solutions for wind incidence angles (WIA) can address the rise in cooling loads. This research studies a prototype cluster using a water table apparatus to analyse multi-zone ventilation flow with evaluation of relevant architectural details and multiple WIAs. The design modifications are evaluated including shading, openings, wing walls while considering structural, circulation and furniture layout issues. The proposed modifications are able to achieve more than 80% good access to ventilation to all the units for all WIAs while some showed more than 90% good access to ventilation.