Construction of windcatcher and necessity of enhancing the traditional windcatcher.docVIP

Magazine of Civil Engineering, №6, 2011 STRUCTURES Construction of windcatcher and necessity of enhancing the traditional windcatcher Bachelor E. Jazayeri*; bachelor A. Gorginpour, Islamic Azad University Keywords: Windcatcher; Badgir; Zero carbon; Environment; Solarwindcatcher 1. Introduction Windcatcher, as its name denotes, is considered as a part of building form customarily constructed in any hot and dry or humid area of Iran. It plays an effective role in modifying heat and adjusting a temperature of interior living spaces in regard to thermal comfort as it uses the convection created by a wind flow and natural pure energy. Environmentally Sustainable Architecture, also known as Green Architecture or Green Building, is an approach to architectural design that emphasizes the place of buildings within both local ecosystems and the global environment. The windcatcher has been used in Iran since early times, it is one of the special masterpieces of Irans architecture and it signs the predecessors intelligence in agreement with the climate, it can be considered as one of the most specific examples of clean energy. The most number of windcatchers are in Iran; these windcatchers are made in two areas: the hot and humid area in the South (such as Lenghe Port) and the hot and dry area of central plateau (such as Yazd) [1]. A windcatcher, also often called wind tower, is a device used to deliver fresh outside air to a building interior, and to deliver extract stale air from it. It does not require any human-made energy like electricity. So it is a natural- ventilation device. In windcatcher the driving forces for the air flow are all natural. They arise from either a blowing wind, or a temperature difference between the building interior and the outside. When windcatcher is placed on the roof of a building, a blowing wind will generate a high pressure on the windward side of the windcat