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A.Goal of Project
The goal of this project is to test the effectiveness of
multiple designs of
buildings in diverting wind blow to a direction. I will create
scaled model of
modern building designed to direct wind blow and test it in a
small scale usinghigh powered fans and dry ice to trace the wind
flow around the building.
After Ive come to a conclusion on which model is the best, I
will try to create
a model of a city with buildings arrangement that can maximize
wind flow so
that the temperature of the city will be lower. This kind of
design would be
relevant in hot tropical countries in Indonesia.
B.
Research BackgroundThe construction of skyscrapers involves the
consideration and calculation
of many factors that can disrupt the buildings integrity that
could lead to
the building being damaged. In short, to keep the building from
collapsing.
One of the factors that engineers need to consider is the wind.
As
skyscrapers became higher, wind speed will increase. Wind that
could,
damage the buildings general structure. The most basic thing
that engineers
had done is to strengthen the foundation of the building itself,
this can be
done by planting concrete cores in the center of the building,
but modern
designers have realized that the shape of the building itself
plays a major
role in reducing the amount of force a building must endure from
being
exposed to high velocity winds.
The main reason engineers and designers had been creating new
and
innovative shapes of skyscrapers is mainly to reduce the force
taken by the
building from the wind but during my experiment, the factor that
I will
observe the most is not the force but rather the direction of
the wind after it
hits the building as the goal that Im trying to achieve is to
create a small
model of a city block with building designs that I hope will
divert wind
flow to the bottom so that pedestrians and everyone on the
street will feel
wind blowing around them and make the hot streets of cities like
Jakarta a
lot more bearable.
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C.Research Specification
1.C.1 Research question
Diverting wind flow after it hits a building to the bottom
should not be
too complicated, but my goal is to make a city block and this
means
multiple buildings and this would be a challenge. I will also
need to
consider a design that would keep the wind from blowing too
strong to
the bottom because in real life this might result in
1.C.2
Mentor and Expert request
Because this experiment project is related to physics, I will
attempt to
request Pak Halim to be my supervisor. I will also ask another
one of
my teacher, Pak Widodo to be one of my expert.
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D.Method and Process
1.D.1 Research Methods
Research will be done using the internet and books. I will also
make
appointments with my experts to consult on my design for the
wind
diverting buildings.
1.D.2
Experiment Methods
I will make scaled model replica of building designs that are
currently
being used to asses the wind flow direction of those design. I
will also test
multiple shape of building and make a design of my own and test
it too.
The test will be done using a high powered fan and dry ice to
determine the
direction of the wind flow.
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Date Activity & Target Note
1st
- 14th
September Finish research and
determine the multiple
types of building designs
that Im going to use.
14th
- 30th
September Make all the models
using cardboard.
1st
- 4t
October Test the card board
model.
5t
- 15t
October Design a city block
model that can maximize
the use of wind flow to
lower the temperature on
the streets.
16th
31stOctober Order the model to be
made and wait for it to
finish.1
st5
thNovember Test the models wind
flow direction. Does it
diverts the wind to the
streets.
5t
30t
November Make changes to the
model if necessary and
finalize the city block
model.
