Cooling architecture: Prototyping an optimised PDEC-integrated façade panel to enhance urban thermal comfort
Cooling architecture: Prototyping an optimised PDEC-integrated façade panel to enhance urban thermal comfort
Integrating passive downdraft evaporative cooling (PDEC) into facades offers an innovative method of decreasing surface temperatures and creating downdraft currents that help cool buildings and their surroundings. Analysis of available literature revealed a significant lack of understanding in the effects PDEC-generated downdraft on internal and external environments. This paper is a summary of a dissertation aiming to design an effective PDEC-façade panel and evaluating its cooling potential and effect on surrounding microclimates. Prototype testing in the evaporative cooling (wet) experiment resulted in surface temperature 11 ºC lower than the control (dry) experiment. The prototype produced an equivalent cooling energy of 2800Wh. These results show a clear cooling benefit of the panel, demonstrating its potential use in new builds or retrofit construction projects, helping reduce cooling loads and improve comfort conditions around the building.
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16 September 2024
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Martini, Elisa
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Cooling architecture: Prototyping an optimised PDEC-integrated façade panel to enhance urban thermal comfort.
Gauthier, Stephanie, Nicol, Fergus, Brotas, Luisa and Altamirano, Hector
(eds.)
13th Masters Conference: People and Buildings, London, London, United Kingdom.
16 Sep 2024.
6 pp
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(doi:10.5258/SOTON/P1195).
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Integrating passive downdraft evaporative cooling (PDEC) into facades offers an innovative method of decreasing surface temperatures and creating downdraft currents that help cool buildings and their surroundings. Analysis of available literature revealed a significant lack of understanding in the effects PDEC-generated downdraft on internal and external environments. This paper is a summary of a dissertation aiming to design an effective PDEC-façade panel and evaluating its cooling potential and effect on surrounding microclimates. Prototype testing in the evaporative cooling (wet) experiment resulted in surface temperature 11 ºC lower than the control (dry) experiment. The prototype produced an equivalent cooling energy of 2800Wh. These results show a clear cooling benefit of the panel, demonstrating its potential use in new builds or retrofit construction projects, helping reduce cooling loads and improve comfort conditions around the building.
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Published date: 16 September 2024
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13th Masters Conference: People and Buildings, London, London, United Kingdom, 2024-09-16 - 2024-09-16
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Elisa Martini
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Fergus Nicol
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Luisa Brotas
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Hector Altamirano
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