Winds in Multi-Family Housing Buildings

Abstract

Although there is progress regarding high-rise residential buildings, there is a need to know the pathologies caused by the absence of a bioclimatic design or a lack of knowledge regarding bioclimatic architecture, characteristics of the materials, simulation context and passive and active sustainability strategies that can be applied. The purpose of the present study was to apply a psychometric design for design techniques applied to housing complexes, the case study made up of 300 high-rise housing or horizontal property buildings built and inhabited to evaluate the comfort of users by calculating the sustainable characteristics of the materials and bioclimatic simulation using the design builder software. The results show that according to the calculation in the residential complex, a wind shadow is produced on the other buildings in the city of more than 800 meters (Z2), that is, it protects them from the wind or prevents other buildings from being ventilated. It is concluded that climate change, by affecting our environment, affects our cities and it is necessary to link new design and construction strategies.