Modern building, ancient A/C: wind-tunnel facade cools apartments
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2022
- For three millennia, builders in the Middle East (where temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius) have been cooling their homes by building wind catchers, or wind scoops, into their structures. The concept relies on a chimney effect by pushing the hotter air up and out by manipulating the cooler air from the lower regions of a structure.
In an apartment building in central Turin (Italy), they’ve created a modern wind catcher in steel and glass, but with the same 3000-year-old tech that provides free cooling in summer, and heating in winter, just by controlling solar radiation and the flow of air up the outer layer of the building. The building has a triple facade of all-glass walls: the outermost layer serves the role of wind scoop; the second layer is a thicker, translucent greenhouse room that helps heat the space during winter; and the final facade protects the interior of the home, with the wind scoop method, from anything but mild temperature changes.
The Casa Hollywood building started its life as a rundown adult movie theater called Cinema Hollywood in an industrial part of town, but when developer Paolo Gallesio climbed to the roof one day and saw the direct view of the royal gardens, he knew it could be something incredible.
Teaming up with architect Luciano Pia (who also designed the urban forest apartments “25 Verde”), they eliminated the lower floors to build higher and create apartments that feel as if they are inside the royal gardens. The open space where the cinema once was, has become a lush, plant-filled atrium that filters the air and cools the building in summer by relying on the same chimney effect as the facade.
We went inside the glass walls of Casa Hollywood to talk about (and feel) the natural cooling, up to the penthouse for the broad views of the duomo and royal palace. Downstairs we went inside the old pre-war theater, where a glass-walled garden separates two units that open onto the atrium with views of the street beyond, providing layers of private and public space.
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A simple and effective ancient technology but we don’t use it enough. By the way, Earthship buildings do use it, from heat exchange tunnels, to the chimney effect, to simply facing the sun, and so on.
I was thinking of the earthships with that greenhouse room as a heating chamber. Though no food production yet.
@@kirstendirksenIam not sure of the real effectiveness of the chimney effect in our climate. We have a short hot period during the summer and a long temperate period. Turin, and all of Piedmont, for many centuries defended the houses from the cold and the heat with thick walls and small windows. along the Po plain which is warmer, the nobles built roof terraces, where they lived in the hottest periods. But Turin is close to the mountains and the rich went to highlands where it was cooler. Turinese are traditionalists, they look at the news with suspicion :)
Today I parked in front of the house and spied on it. It is beautiful, it is brave and I love it ..
@@kirstendirksen 3:00 This old chimney techniques from the desert regions is genius. I ve heard about it earlier. But what puzzels me for this building are two facts.
1. you need to have a closed "chimney", only opened at the ground and at the top. Otherwiese the current (flow) effect won't take place. As far as i could see and the man described it, the facade has opened windos everywhere. What do I miss?
2. The anchient techniqe uses opaque chimneys. A glass chimney in the middle of the sun would heat up the air within the chimney. So how does it support the temperature difference between the ground and the top?
The ancient tech towers are build in the center of the buildings so that the air flow at the ground comes from outside and flows through the rooms and areas, and then is sucked into the tower to get up and out the tower at top. This stream possibility I cannot see in this multilayered glass facade. Bc everthing is made out of glass, the sunn goes inside and heats its air inside. So how should a stream, if it exists, cools that air inside down?
thanx in advance for a reply
@@gordonpasha3126 spot on my friend.. I am also sceptical as to the real effectiveness of the second skin. It might work well as a first buffer, for acoustics for example, but to say that it cools the building is a lot of wishful thinking. The second buffer layer is probably doing a better job just by shading properly the inside of the flat. And seeing the number of AC units present in the second layer, the temperature must go quite high in the summer...
@@kirstendirksen in my opinion Pia imagined an aquarium instead of a greenhouse. Of course it looks like a nice place for tomatoes .......
I am literally designing an environmental facade like this for a project in architecture school, open grp mesh flooring, translucent floors and dynamic natural air cooling included. Thank you once again for the content on this channel, you work so hard!
so you're copying the same thing these guys copied?
@@greenwave819 Exactly.
They are copying me actually.
Literally - or figuratively.
@@ziraprod6090 Literally.
The cooling method he mentioned is in Iran city of Yazd. You must go there when things are a bit better again between west and Iran. Magnificent country.
I have also seen a more robust windmill design from this region, Afghanistan Tajikistan Iran. An ancient and beautiful region of the world.
I'd love to visit Iran some day! Love from Scotland 🏴
Nah
Iranian wind catchers or BadGir. The City of Yazd is very famous for them as they are being used even today.
It is unfortunate that more of humanity is not able to live in creatively designed spaces.
In the winter, with the cooling convection stopped, you basically have the greenhouse effect. In the summer, the infrared light gets trapped between the glass, heating the air, but the heated air is allowed to vent, instead of the heat transferring into the house.
Extremely clever and elegant solution.
I like the first guys English speaking skills and his pronunciation of words, pretty cool to hear him describe the premises, good narration
The apartment at 15:15 blew my mind. Glass and big green luscious leaves as a barrier and the stairs and the art is breathtaking. He truly smashed the interior design out of the park. Bravo!
As an older person, stairways without at least one side with handrails, very scary.
This is truly magnificent. This is how I hope the future of residential and commercial blended buildings will start to lean. Unique shapes, features, green, using natural weather and wind elements, going higher, courtyards in the middle and gardens on the top. So many Asian cities are doing this and the US is very very behind.
In Iran the technology is called "Baud Geer باد گیر" which literary means Wind Catcher and in affluent homes they would combine it with the water distribution system "qanat قنات" that runs under the home and by opening and closing valves they would regulate the venturi effect of air movement as well as water evaporation to cool the homes for probably a couple of thousand years. The best examples are in central Iran in the city of Yazd.
I'm sorry but you don't talk about the same topic. The physical principle applied in this project is the "ventilated facade". Usually the outer wall is opaque. The solar rays heat the external wall forming a convective movement of the air from the bottom upwards in the cavity. In this case the transparent outer wall allows the sun's rays to heat the inner wall. The result is a useless convective movement because the warm inner wall heats the room like a greenhouse. light is heat, my father said, he was an old engineer who loved shutters. Quanat are widespread in the Mediterranean, even in Sicily, in Palermo there are the scirocco caves, where the water, lapped by the warm wind, evaporates and cools. Wind catchers or Baud Geer collect wind at the highest reachable altitudes and convey it downwards. If the wind licks the water it evaporates and the change of state lowers the temperature.....
Thank you for featuring this super-efficient intelligent design. I feel inspired and hopeful for the future of housing.
Amazing building ! Thank you for all these videos you make ❤🎉
This is a fantastic example of form follows function.
What a simple and effective design philosophy that we've lost touch with in modern society. We rely far too much on complicated modern systems when we absolutely don't have to.
Another phenomenal structure/ design…well done as always…be safe…
This is epic!
so lovely. the creativity of some people is amazing.
I love seeing interesting architecture and being simultaneously able to improve my Italian
really interesting.....great job. I especially like the wind tunnel designs and gardening - to aid heat/cooling. well designed building. Bravo.
What a beautiful and clever building!
Earth ships use this concept a lot more efficiently. Basically, long underground ducts attached to a solar vent creating positive airflow through a home to cool it.
what about geothermals?
@@greenwave819 same principle basically but with water instead of air. However air doesn't require power
Le génie Italien, la créativité italienne, la qualité du design 👍🏻
Fascinating, Thank you.
What a cool idea was that first home and that detail....woow... super cool...wish to have more such well-designed homes around us... right now letting this comment from a slum house in the uk :D... in the honor of great architecture...
Beautiful building and apartment. 😍
This is shockingly beautiful 👏
Very inspiring, thank you
Excellent video!
Hola, los felicito por su hermoso canal de RUclips!!!
Excelente trabajo!!!
Mi familia y yo, los saludamos desde treinta y tres (Uruguay)🇺🇾
That's a fun building.
THANK you, Kirsten. Very impressive. Beautiful. It reminds, as concept and tech, a little of what you presented a while back, the 'forest condominium'. Were these the same architects?
Yes. Both are Luciano Pia. They do have similarities
@@kirstendirksen I see. I think they both look quite different, but the 'feel' is the same. The transitions between inside and outside spaces, the layers of glass facades, plants and mix of high tech with simple concrete.
Yes, was wondering if these were the same architects. Amazing
Brilliant. And beautiful. So Italian.
The top floor unit is really nice. 🤌 I think all the homeowners should redesign the courtyard so there is a walking path and benches to have a conversation outdoors, perhaps a water feature in the middle. I would also create a green wall barrier to block off the street traffic and noise so the courtyard is an oasis from the city.
This one is innovation at it best.🤔 Very well done , like a lot of these videos.
First! :)
Really like your videos, a lot of inspiration.
Always such a pleasure to watch your explorations and wonderous architecture finds. Thank You for this.
Absolutely Brilliant 🥳🥳🥳
Love it !
I'm equally astonished and frightened by those stairs.
This looks great
Awsome building
By far my favorite video. This was a find. Every apartment was a journey. The art in these units too was to die for. I wasn’t so lucky when I was in Italy to spend time in any buildings as brilliant as this. I’m obsessed with the journey through the building and apartments here.
Fantastico!
Thank you for going around the world and showing us these creative buildings and technologies.
Wow I really love this one
Be nice to have prefab 'air-crete' panels for passive modular home builds. Also using the wind chimney skin incorporated into the passive solar. Viable indoor year round temperatures with minimal energy input adjusted to each zone with only minor design corrections. With inner courtyard planted in zone appropriate perennials & annual raised beds for food source. Plus a bulletproof greywater reuse system & compost toilet. The local use adobe 3d printed walls seem to be getting the closest, just need some features with passive/wind chimney designs incorporated. CAD with adobe adjusted for local climates & low overhead costs as a goal. Wonder if there is a super material that could be low cost but, give triple glaze efficiency & daylight.
Nice!!
Amazing
11:46 "... because when you are dying and you are sitting over there you can just have a look to the view behind"
Okay, that took a turn ....
Ooohh... , dining
This makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely
Spettacolare!
Wow
Very Inique. ❣🌎👍🏖😎
The engineering $$ and design of $$$ the building are very fascinating and $$$ even beautiful. The recognition that $$$$ space, air and light are important for $$ quality of life is honorable. The whole building is $$$ rather bespoke - can its attributes be scaled up for access by the $$ general public, or will they be exclusive innovations that only the very wealthy can afford? If only a few can afford such innovative design, does it ultimately have any positive environmental impact?
Who is going to clean all of this glass?
Thank You! I was thinking exactly the same thing. And how often
Oh, the hand prints and water spots!
The thing is people who can afford these houses usually can afford to pay for help to clean everything. If the designers/owners had to do the cleaning themselves, they would probably design with less glass.
Probably you have already left Turin, but an interesting visit would be the San Paolo skyscraper, which was designed to be sustainable.
sustainable is a really fancy and hip catch word that sounds awesome to me!!!
sustainable is a really fancy and hip catch word that sounds awesome to me!!!
These are great videos you guys are doing however where are the modest clever buildings? I don’t see anything being built for people that are at the lower income level. Enough with the elites and what they’re doing.
Mi piace l’idea.
Nice
A simple repeated secondary room used like an earth ship or
Solar home. If they used a lap pool in this area, the waters heat would keep temperatures even more stable. Like when a city is close to the ocean.
air pressure at different heights also creates this movement of air.
This IS cool
It gives me ideas if I want build my own house. I like the circullation of air. The other idea that you showed me was the cork system near Barcelona.
Ha! Came for the ancient technology, stayed for the tear down of the p*rn* cinema to get a better view of the Shroud of Turin. I love it! Well done!
"smart people knows this, but not a lot of people smart" lmao that cracked me up!
That moment she said, "Jesus sheet." 🤣
Is this the same effect as the taller, black, roofed farm vents you see now? The chimney is supposed to draw up hot air as a it heats in the sun.
Christopher Alexander/Nikos Salingaros input would be great.
Really fascinating! But I imagine paying a fortune to live there.
A 100 year mortgage might make it affordable for tenants, but developers want a quick turn around in their investments, 20 to 30 yr horizon mortgages or loans, but usually not keeping that long.
Looks like a big fire hazard. Are there options to shut the natural ventilation?
I have no idea how it passed inspection between all the unguarded wells and the dodgy door sizes. I'm surprised it's not covered in bird droppings; I imagine the peculiarities would invite nesting. The floors look like they require shoes too.
I'd be curious to hear from long time residents what works and what doesn't, in like 2030. It's certainly an intriguing apartment block.
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AT my age, those stairs would scare the heck out'a me!
Question, does it work on 100 degree day?
the tech came from the desert
SO THEY HAVE CHIMNEYS FOR AIRFLOW NOT FOR FIRE.
THANKU
Him:it's a house without walls
Next frame: him straggling through walls
The limited privacy between floors is a misstep on this one.
sound isolation is the far far far most important aspect of any home, especially in the city. temperature means nothing in comparison. it never gets that cold in the cityblock anyways.
The jacket really says it all…
Does anyone know what that moss was called? Was it special?
I’m pretty sure it’s dried or preserved. Not living.
They actually are lichens. Search for "stabilized lichens/moss".
Hello hello hello⚘👋🌞👋
sneaker game on point italianos
also, how do they keep pigeons away from the outdoor flat spaces?!
we invented the sneaker game
The stairs look neat but are an accident waiting to happen.
Probably laid some serious Euros on the window frames.
They don't come cheap.
Now, the balcony platform is clever.
There is, unless your upstairs neighbors wear undergarments.
I am blind, at least three times a week I have been driving in front of this building for years and I have only ever looked at the ground floor. Looking at the ground floor and its exposed concrete, my opinion was "brutalist building"and I looked beyond.
Paolo Gallesio told the truth, the Turinese look towards the mall and don't see the outer districts..............
the green garden in turin is amazing....i mean the pineapple of landscaping..some green worms dropped there.... meanwhile hundreds of books coming out every year written by botanists and landscape designers...we just got in this design some worms made out of bushes...just there something... they call this modernism...it is just against every book in landscape design and botanics....
Visions of Sugar Plums Drive-Thru his Head
A window cleaners nightmare
House doesn't have walls it has a physical forcefeild keeping the outside outside, we call this a big bloody window or a wall made of glass.
I use no A?C or heat. I've recently started blocking all my windows during the day and my house is soooo much cooler simply from blocking out the solar radiation. GO figure!!!
What about bugs? You know, mosquitos, flies, no see ums... Oh, and Cottonwood fluff...
Those open stairs are a No Go unless one is under 30. My grandmother wouldn't survive the fall! Not to mentioned my old Pug dog... I don't even want to think about a fall down those things. Pretty but absolutely impractical.
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The photos were from Iran
8:52 ...excuse me?
I like it but can it be used in the future buildings that will have to be 50-stories, with a footprint (I’m guessing) of ten stadiums.
And there won’t be clean air to breathe until we eliminate all vehicles worldwide.
And first we need equal wealth worldwide, so find a Universal Basic Income for everyone.
Where's the love button?
Better then AOC new green deal😍😍😍😍😍😍💋💋💋💋
Il Nord Italia è spesso caratterizzato da una scarsa qualità dell'aria. Soprattutto i livelli di ozono non sono buoni per le persone sensibili in estate.
Thank you Kirsten for exposing americans to what life can be like in first world nations. Rich
The stairs omg... solid? Bru if you use those stairs in a hurry, they'll brake and you'll fall dawn...
Better tech is simply not to put that many windows....