Modeling Airflow
April 5, 2004 11:14 AM Subscribe
I am preparing a course on Computer Aided Environmental Design for architects and other professionals, and am planning to make extensive use of Ecotect, a package which allows one model and study the solar, light, thermal and acoustic behavior of a building. To round it out, I would like to be able to study ventilation and airflow as well. Is there any easy-to-use (for an architect, not an engineer) software in the vein of Ecotect which will allow basic modeling of ventilation or airflow on a standard PC?
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Sketchup!
This is another piece of software that lets one animate through time and seasons to see how light will play on built structures. Some modeling of landscape (trees at least) is possible. The outputs are unbelievably nice little movies. This is the sweetest architecture/CAD tool I've ever used. It's possible for a mere mortal to design a cool building!
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posted by zpousman at 12:24 PM on April 5, 2004