Natural ventilation for office building retrofit in dense urban context under hot and humid climate
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Resumo: | Abstract Recent studies underline that simple and non-invasive retrofit solutions can recover natural ventilation potential in existing buildings under temperate climate. Nonetheless, the efficiency of these solutions in dense urban contexts under hot and humid climate remains unclear. This paper aims to evaluate the thermal comfort gains caused by natural ventilation when retrofitting an office building in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and thermal simulations are carried out on Ansys CFX and Design builder to assess indoor air flow before and after retrofit. The diagnosis of the current scenario indicates that the surrounding buildings block a significant part of the wind flow, and occupants experience only a few hours of thermal comfort during the year, especially on lower floors. To increase indoor air flow, the fixed upper windows were transformed into pivot windows and kept open permanently. This measure increases the annual hours of thermal comfort by 0.5-35%, depending on the floor and the adaptive comfort model. These findings suggest that natural ventilation itself may not be sufficient to ensure occupants' comfort throughout the year under the investigated context. |
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Natural ventilation for office building retrofit in dense urban context under hot and humid climateNatural ventilationUrban canyonThermal comfortRetrofitAdaptive thermal comfort modelAbstract Recent studies underline that simple and non-invasive retrofit solutions can recover natural ventilation potential in existing buildings under temperate climate. Nonetheless, the efficiency of these solutions in dense urban contexts under hot and humid climate remains unclear. This paper aims to evaluate the thermal comfort gains caused by natural ventilation when retrofitting an office building in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and thermal simulations are carried out on Ansys CFX and Design builder to assess indoor air flow before and after retrofit. The diagnosis of the current scenario indicates that the surrounding buildings block a significant part of the wind flow, and occupants experience only a few hours of thermal comfort during the year, especially on lower floors. To increase indoor air flow, the fixed upper windows were transformed into pivot windows and kept open permanently. This measure increases the annual hours of thermal comfort by 0.5-35%, depending on the floor and the adaptive comfort model. These findings suggest that natural ventilation itself may not be sufficient to ensure occupants' comfort throughout the year under the investigated context.Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído - ANTAC2021-04-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-86212021000200067Ambiente Construído v.21 n.2 2021reponame:Ambiente construído (Online)instname:Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído (ANTAC)instacron:ANTAC10.1590/s1678-86212021000200515info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessFontenelle,Marilia RamalhoBastos,Leopoldo Eurico GonçalvesLorente,Sylvieeng2021-03-08T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1678-86212021000200067Revistahttps://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruidohttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||ambienteconstruido@ufrgs.br1678-86211415-8876opendoar:2021-03-08T00:00Ambiente construído (Online) - Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído (ANTAC)false |
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Natural ventilation for office building retrofit in dense urban context under hot and humid climate |
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Natural ventilation for office building retrofit in dense urban context under hot and humid climate |
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Natural ventilation for office building retrofit in dense urban context under hot and humid climate Fontenelle,Marilia Ramalho Natural ventilation Urban canyon Thermal comfort Retrofit Adaptive thermal comfort model |
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Natural ventilation for office building retrofit in dense urban context under hot and humid climate |
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Natural ventilation for office building retrofit in dense urban context under hot and humid climate |
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Natural ventilation for office building retrofit in dense urban context under hot and humid climate |
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Natural ventilation for office building retrofit in dense urban context under hot and humid climate |
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Natural ventilation for office building retrofit in dense urban context under hot and humid climate |
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Fontenelle,Marilia Ramalho |
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Fontenelle,Marilia Ramalho Bastos,Leopoldo Eurico Gonçalves Lorente,Sylvie |
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Bastos,Leopoldo Eurico Gonçalves Lorente,Sylvie |
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Fontenelle,Marilia Ramalho Bastos,Leopoldo Eurico Gonçalves Lorente,Sylvie |
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Natural ventilation Urban canyon Thermal comfort Retrofit Adaptive thermal comfort model |
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Natural ventilation Urban canyon Thermal comfort Retrofit Adaptive thermal comfort model |
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Abstract Recent studies underline that simple and non-invasive retrofit solutions can recover natural ventilation potential in existing buildings under temperate climate. Nonetheless, the efficiency of these solutions in dense urban contexts under hot and humid climate remains unclear. This paper aims to evaluate the thermal comfort gains caused by natural ventilation when retrofitting an office building in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and thermal simulations are carried out on Ansys CFX and Design builder to assess indoor air flow before and after retrofit. The diagnosis of the current scenario indicates that the surrounding buildings block a significant part of the wind flow, and occupants experience only a few hours of thermal comfort during the year, especially on lower floors. To increase indoor air flow, the fixed upper windows were transformed into pivot windows and kept open permanently. This measure increases the annual hours of thermal comfort by 0.5-35%, depending on the floor and the adaptive comfort model. These findings suggest that natural ventilation itself may not be sufficient to ensure occupants' comfort throughout the year under the investigated context. |
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Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído - ANTAC |
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