Imajineer Studio
Posts tagged climate responsive design
Notes on architecture, product development and brand work from the studio.
Ceiling Fans and the Tropical Comfort Band
A ceiling fan draws about 30 watts. A one-ton air conditioner draws closer to 1,000, and the fan can still make the room feel two to three degrees cooler. In a...
Stack Effect Ventilation Runs Two Ways in the Tropics
Buoyancy-driven airflow scales with the square root of the temperature difference between inside and outside. In Phnom Penh, a naturally ventilated room and...
What Biophilic Design Actually Does
A single potted plant cleans almost no air. Most biophilic design is installed as a finish and sold as a feeling, while the performance it promises comes from...
What Phnom Penh's Rainfall Pattern Means for Tanks
Phnom Penh averages close to 1,400 millimeters of rain a year, enough on paper to cover a mid-rise building's irrigation and toilet-flushing demand. The volume...
What Parametric Design Actually Changes in a Building
In 1960, a stadium was designed from nineteen parameters, including sightlines and the concrete budget. Parametric design has since been mistaken for a style...
Tropical Wall R-Value Is Not What You Think
A 200-millimeter concrete wall has the thermal resistance of a cotton shirt. In a tropical mid-rise, walls can carry 40 to 65 percent of the conduction load...
The 13.5 Meter Line: Floor Plate Depth and Cross Ventilation
Cross ventilation works to a depth of about five times the floor to ceiling height. With a 2.7 meter ceiling, that is 13.5 meters. Most mid-rise floor plates...