[Greenbuilding] blow ye winds

[Alan Abrams]

We're going to try out a theory-call it the carbureted window effect-that if
you have an instance where you're placing a pair of casement windows in a
wall, to install them with the hinges back-to-back, instead of along the
outer edges.  If you have them the normal way, and they're both opened -
they defeat breezes slipping along the wall.  With windows opened
back-to-back; maybe 30d beyond the plane of the wall - gull wing fashion -
breezes along the wall are captured by the leading window, accelerated (by
virtue of the diversion across the vee shape), and released out the trailer,
depressurizing the room and thus providing potential draw from some leeward
opening for cross ventilation.  

 

Or so says Newton, right?

 

Alan Abrams, AIBD

Principal, Abrams Design Build

www.abramsdesignbuild.com