TY - GEN
T1 - Design investigations on building-integrated wind energy
T2 - 40th ASES National Solar Conference 2011, SOLAR 2011
AU - Poerschke, Ute
AU - Woollen, Malcolm
AU - Srebric, Jelena
AU - Stewart, Susan
AU - Murtha, Timothy
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - The project described in this paper explores ideas for building-integrated wind energy (BIWE) in middle-rise buildings in northwest Pennsylvania. The project combines technical, environmental and aesthetic research and design studies by an interdisciplinary team of architects, architectural engineers, aerospace engineers, landscape architects, and meteorologists. The project forms a testing ground for new architectural strategies for a place-based approach of wind turbine implementation in buildings and the urban environment. While current research focuses primarily on technical performance and the economics of wind turbines, this project combines research on wind behavior around buildings with design investigations of wind-optimized building forms and the aesthetic potential of turbine integration in architecture. The project links exploratory research to the education for sustainable architecture and technology. The paper summarizes the first step of the research, outcomes of an academic design studio and a symposium on BIWE with architects, engineers, turbine industry representatives and artists.
AB - The project described in this paper explores ideas for building-integrated wind energy (BIWE) in middle-rise buildings in northwest Pennsylvania. The project combines technical, environmental and aesthetic research and design studies by an interdisciplinary team of architects, architectural engineers, aerospace engineers, landscape architects, and meteorologists. The project forms a testing ground for new architectural strategies for a place-based approach of wind turbine implementation in buildings and the urban environment. While current research focuses primarily on technical performance and the economics of wind turbines, this project combines research on wind behavior around buildings with design investigations of wind-optimized building forms and the aesthetic potential of turbine integration in architecture. The project links exploratory research to the education for sustainable architecture and technology. The paper summarizes the first step of the research, outcomes of an academic design studio and a symposium on BIWE with architects, engineers, turbine industry representatives and artists.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866993547
SN - 9781618394279
T3 - 40th ASES National Solar Conference 2011, SOLAR 2011
SP - 955
EP - 962
BT - 40th ASES National Solar Conference 2011, SOLAR 2011
Y2 - 17 May 2011 through 20 May 2011
ER -