ARC3204H S
Instructor: Alstan Jakubiec
Meeting Section: L9101
Synchronous
Wednesday, 9:00AM - 12:00PM

Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Architectural Thermal and Fluid Dynamics is a hands-on course studying the kinetic transfer of air and heat through buildings with a primary focus on natural ventilation. Ventilation, both mechanical and natural, influences the way architectural and urban environments are perceived. While most modern HVAC systems aim to create a uniform spatial condition through diffusion, achieving this is challenging and not necessarily desirable. Student participants in this course will be asked to understand and critique these existing contexts and then use computational tools to design a piece of the built environment that is responsive to the thermal and fluid dynamics of airflow. Student participants in the course will be introduced to the basics of heat and mass transfer as a way of understanding the spatial conditions present in buildings and urban contexts. Tools including natural ventilation airflow network models (initially introduced in ARC2023) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) will be introduced to students to use in analyzing and critiquing ventilation case studies from the typical sealed office building with forced air ventilation to naturally ventilated design concepts. Students will then embark on a guided investigative project to design a space, building, or urban environment responding to the spatial and thermal implications of airflow.