NAME : MAYAR SALAH AHMED

ID : 16P9025

COOLING AN URBAN
SPACE USING
SHADING DEVICE
Dr : Amal Kamal Shamseldin
 The initial client’s request for this first building in the eco-district, was to guarantee
interior thermal comfort during summer months,
without the reliance on mechanical air conditioning
systems.
 Given the building’s Mediterranean location,
orientation was the determining factor in the
configuration of exterior bays.
 Large floor-to-ceiling openings provide ambient light
for offices lining the Northern façade, whereas
recessed glazed openings make up the Southern
façade.
 The Eastern façade is a series of sliding glass bays protected by porticos and canvas
shading elements.
 On the Western side, thin gills-like openings
oriented to the North bathe the interior with
orchestrated rays of light and vertical trellis systems
create cutouts in the floors and running partitions
line the outdoor terraces.
 The recessed openings create unique folds in the
concrete façades of the building with the wall
thickness being sufficiently thick to incorporate
multiple components: ventilation ducts (for turbofan
double-flow ventilation system) and collectors used by a floor-slab heating system,
shelving and storage, movable partitions, built-in seating.
 The building’s mass, with its compact nature, makes use of the principle of thermal
inertia, which thwarts sharp temperature swings and allows for internal temperature
moderation. The building also uses geothemal wells, reaching 100m underground and
process of free cooling. By day, due to the building’s wall thickness that stores daytime
heat. By night, the process reverses, the walls “unloading” their accumulated heat by
several means : natural (via atrium) or accelerated (via two smoke evacuation turrets).
 The atrium which rises the full height of the volume, distributes fresh air arriving from
slatted, glazed intakes in the exterior façades and exhausts “used” air through summit
opening. The orientation and opening of the slats are automatically controled by
interior thermal probes. Some fifteen air movers distribute fresh air evenly amongst
floor levels, and help to ensure the
natural cycle of ventilation
continues to push used air towards
the summit of the volume.
 Repurposed boards of pine line
the majority of the interior walls,
these elements making use of the
crates that held exterior formwork
used during erection of the façades.
 CRITICISM
 What about the opening space in the roof of the building ?
I know its advantage but in the summer I guess it will affect badly on the building,
it will be better if we close most of it and use it to generate energy from the solar
gain and use it in the building.

Fabric Architecture
Sports Stadiums :

Stadiums today need to provide shade not only for

the players but for the spectators. The best
solution? Tensile Structures, of course. All the
major soccer stadiums around the world are getting
it. They are using shade structures to cover their
seating areas and these structures are also
providing shade on the field too. Besides protecting
spectators from harmful UV rays ,snow , rain or
wind, they transform new and existing facilities like
no other material. Tensile fabric roofs can pay for themselves in being part of a fund raising
activity for potential corporate or alumni sponsorship.
Criticism
 I guess if we use devices to benefit from the solar heat and use it to generate energy it will
be better, we may use this energy to warm the stadium in the evening or to light it.

 Its shape may be better if we use shapes describe or refer to the sport played in the
stadium.