The Impact of Forms of Buildings on the Air Exchange in Their Environment: Based on the Example of Urban Development in Warsaw

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Author(s): Katarzyna Zielonko-Jung (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)and Marta Poćwierz (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 21
Source title: Design Solutions for nZEB Retrofit Buildings
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Elzbieta Rynska (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland), Urszula Kozminska (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland), Kinga Zinowiec-Cieplik (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland), Joanna Rucinska (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)and Barbara Szybinska-Matusiak (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4105-9.ch014

Keywords: Civil Engineering / Engineering Science Reference / Science & Engineering

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Possibilities for energy-efficient, natural ventilation of buildings in an urban environment depend on the airflow around them. This chapter deals with the issue of dependence of air exchange in urban spaces on the building forms used in them and on relative position of these buildings. The authors focus on the problem of air stagnation in dense urban development. This phenomenon increases the energy demand of buildings. The purpose of the following study is to present this problem and identify it in the selected example of existing settlements in Warsaw. The existing situation was compared with the revised spatial layout. The conclusions relate to spatial features of those building arrangements that are exposed to the problem of insufficient ventilation.

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