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The wind-inducing anabatic office concept from architectural practice Betillin/Dorval-Bory seeks to cool office workers in hot and humid climates without a killer energy footprint (Image: Betillon / Dorval Bory)
The dark surface required to create the thermal current can be put to use as a parking lot (Image: Betillon / Dorval-Bory)
Anabatic office by night (Image: Betillon / Dorval-Bory)
The cells of the building's interior are enclosed within a sealed wind tunnel (Image: Betillon / Dorval-Bory)
The cells of the building's interior are enclosed within a sealed wind tunnel (Image: Betillon / Dorval Bory)
The cells of the building's interior are enclosed within a sealed wind tunnel (Image: Betillon / Dorval Bory)
The cells of the building's interior are enclosed within a sealed wind tunnel (Image: Betillon / Dorval Bory)
The office is specifically envisaged as an office for Costa Rican environmental protection NGO, FundeCoR (Image: Betillon / Dorval-Bory)
The various uses of the interior's cells (Image: Betillon / Dorval-Bory)
Exploded structural diagram (Image: Betillon / Dorval-Bory)
Diagram of the thermal principles behind the anabatic office (Image: Betillon / Dorval-Bory)
The office is designed to follow the contours of the land, mainly set below the thermal surface to avoid the reflux of warm air into the space (Image: Betillon / Dorval-Bory)
A plan of the anabatic office (Image: Betillon / Dorval-Bory)
A plan of the anabatic office (Image: Betillon / Dorval-Bory)
Article Summary
By embracing wind "as an architectural element", architectural practice Betillon/Dorval-Bory believes its anabatic office concept is ideally suited to hot and humid climes. But rather than relying on natural air movement, the anabatic office seeks to create its own wind, so that energy-efficient cooling can occur where little natural wind occurs. Anabatic is a word that describes an uphill wind generated by a localized heat source.
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