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WIND DIAGRAM Access
Due to the site’s location surrounded on all sides by buildings of similar heights - it does not recieve a lot of natural ventilation.
The site is currently accessed from Abercrombie Street (on the south) and Raglan Street (on the western side), The site is currently used as a car park and has a small service road running through it. In order to build student housing, this connection would need to be severed and the site would need to isolate that connection.
A site analysis showed that the site recieved on average less than 1 knot of wind at around 1.7 metrers on a day with fine weather,
Shadow Studies
21 March/23 September
21 June
21 December
A psychometric anaylsis of Sydney shows that a design can achieve 100% comfort throughout the year if both active and passive cooling methods are used. Most importantly, a majority of comfortable hours throughout the year can be achieved through passive methods alone such as shading windows, using thermal mass to store heat during the day and to radiate throughout the night, as well as natural ventilation methods.
380 Abercrombie Street BAEN2002 | Design Integr ation lab:Energy
Student Housing
Jarrod Haynes | 440173788