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The four shapes and their aerodynamic performance in the wind. The lower the drag coefficient (cd), the more aerodynamic is the shape
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Despite the immense influence of the building shape on the wind flow, the wind-based design is not yet a part of the daily architectural practice. With improvingdigital design tools, however, the interactions of architecture and the wind flow can be quite precisely analyzed very early in the design process. Buildings are constantly exposed to dynam...
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... the final building shape is planned as aerodynamic, the design is derived from the most aerodynamic form obtained from the experimental studies from the wind tunnel measurements of four forms with the same frontal area ( Fig. 1) [13]. The parametric definition in Grasshopper has to be formed in a correct way to influence the final shape of the building as desired: the length, width, and height of the building are defined through the profile curves. Changing the profile curves leads to the change in the final form. The frontal area in the first contact with ...
