Te Whaea: environmentally sustainable design
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gain in poorly insulated buildings is tempered by multi-storey
conections, allowing natural convection |
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Stack ventilation and rock bin thermal store |
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Excessive thermal gain in summer and plummeting temperatures
in winter made Te Whaea, the home of the New Zealand Schools
of Dance and Drama, an uncomfortable educational environment
for staff and students.
Aonui Architecture is managing the transition to a natural
conditioning solution where the summer heat is automatically
vented through the central plaza roof.
By contrast, winter solar gain in air temperature is captured
and recirculated through the cooler ground floor basement
level, which acts as a thermal buffer. |
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of thermal pathways resulting from natural ventilation and
prevailing wind |
Opening up between
floors allows the thermal stability of the lower level concrete
slab and walls to temper the diurnal extremes at the upper
levels and encourage a new freshness and vitality in building.
The natural conditioning system is managed via a Solarhomes
Ltd programmable logic controller. |
See Te
Whaea for more pictures |
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