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Maximizing Natural Light: The Benefits and Best Practices of Daylighting in Design and Construction Maximizing Natural Light: The Benefits and Best Practices of Daylighting in Des... Read More - https://lnkd.in/dRyFcpKt

♟️Iran's Ingenious Ancient Windcatchers💨 Iran's traditional windcatchers were designed to create natural ventilation in buildings. Here's a glimpse into their physics: 🔥▶️🧊Temperature Differential: Windcatchers make use of the temperature difference between the outside air and the interior of a building. 🌪️Airflow Dynamics: They capture cooler breezes at higher altitudes, directing them down into the building, while the warmer indoor air rises and exits upwards through the windcatcher. 💧Qanat Integration: Many of these Windcatchers are built above so called qanats. Qanats are underground water channels. The wind creates a low pressure zone inside the building which will allow air to flow inside passing by the qanats water while evaporation and convection cools the inflowing air. 💚🆒Sustainable Cooling: This natural process provides cooling without electricity, showcasing sustainable architectural practices from centuries ago. These windcatchers are not just architectural wonders but also early examples of environmental adaptability and efficiency. #AncientEngineering #SustainableDesign #Windcatchers #ArchitecturalPhysics #IranianHeritage #NaturalCooling #AC #Sustainability #Efficiency #Nature #CoolingSystem #HVAC

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Simple but quite effective method to calculate the cooling effect of trees! The combination of LandsDesign and Ladybug Tools for Grasshopper can help planners and landscape architects to better define vegetation in urban spaces. Moreover, the video shows how to calculate the solar radiation that a tree receives, based on its location, period of time and by considering its surrounding geometries.

Simes SHIFT, with its aesthetic elegance and functionality, represents the synthesis between an adjustable spotlight and a urban pole. Light directed only where needed through modular and totally adjustable heads. https://lnkd.in/gfEcyUZn

Learning from the past “to teach the present how to have a future”. I love the genius of passive building techniques and stories that speak to the benefits of better buildings in human terms - this article is full of good inspiration for passive cooling. https://lnkd.in/e9vGnkmu

Traditional wind towers are architectural elements that originated in Iran (Persia) and are used to create cross-ventilation and passive cooling in buildings. Windcatchers come in various designs, depending on whether local prevailing winds are unidirectional, bidirectional, or multidirectional, how they change with altitude, the daily temperature cycle, humidity, and the amount of dust that needs to be removed. Windcatchers can also function without wind.

Defying gravity: The floating Mezzanine that redefines open-concept living. https://lnkd.in/gFCHyGM4

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Embrace the future of sustainable architecture and HVAC solutions with innovative glazing technologies. #SmartBuildings #EnergyEfficiency #ThermalComfort #AI #SustainableArchitecture #GreenTech #BuildingInnovation