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The Torrent Research Centre in Ahmedabad, India uses a passive downdraft evaporative cooling system to cool the building without mechanical HVAC. Air enters through wind catchers at the top, passes over water which evaporatively cools it, then descends through the building before exiting low level vents. This circulation creates comfortable interior conditions without energy intensive cooling. The design takes advantage of evaporative cooling techniques used for centuries in dry climates to effectively cool the large research complex.

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Case Study

The Torrent Research Centre in Ahmedabad, India uses a passive downdraft evaporative cooling system to cool the building without mechanical HVAC. Air enters through wind catchers at the top, passes over water which evaporatively cools it, then descends through the building before exiting low level vents. This circulation creates comfortable interior conditions without energy intensive cooling. The design takes advantage of evaporative cooling techniques used for centuries in dry climates to effectively cool the large research complex.

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TORRENT RESEARCH CENTRE BUILDING

Case Study

NAME : KAVYA RAVI


DCRUZ
TY B.ARCH DIV : B
INTRODUCTION
 Location: GIDC Bhat, Bhat, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
 Architect and interior consultants: Nimish Patel and parul
Zaveri, Abhikram, Ahmedabad.
 Total Built-Up Area-19700sqm
 Project period :1994-1999

• The Torrent Research Centre (Gujarat, India) is a complex of research


laboratories with supporting facilities and infrastructures, locates on
the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
• This building uses passive downdraft evaporative cooling for a large-
scale office building and demonstrates that it is possible to achieve
human comforts in dry hot regions without using regular HVAC
system and without compromising the cost of construction
• This complex of research laboratories was designed to provide human
comfort within the building, with minimum use of electrical energy or
mechanical appliances.
DESIGN

• The design of the building facilitates generating an air draft,assuming


still air conditions.
• The air heats up in the peripheral shafts,rises and escape through the
openings at the top.
• The air in the volumegets replaced from the usable spaces, which in
turn receives its own replacement throught the concourse area, on top
of which the air inlets are located.
• The entering air is sprinkled with a fine spray of water mist at the inlets
during hot temperature outside.
• At each floor levels,sets of hopper windows designed to catch the
descending flow,can be used to divert some of the cooled air into
adjacent space having passed through the space, the air then exits via
high level glass louvers opening with connect directly to the perimeter
exhaust shaft towers that suck the air and design create a circulation
across the building insuring the displacement of fresh air along the day.
• Such wind catchers
become primary
elements of the
• Evaporation cooling has
been used for many architectural form
centuries in parts of the also.
middle east, notably Iran • Passive downdraught
and Turkey. evaporation cooling
• In this system, wind is particularly
catchers guides outside air effective in hot and
over water-filled pots dry climates , its has
including evaporation and been used to
causing a significant drop effectively cool the
in temperature before the
air enters the interiors. Torrent research
Centre in
Ahmedabad.

PASSIVE DOWN DRAUGHT COOLING


PLAN AND SECTION

Subtitle
PROCESS & DETAILS

Cross Sectional
Detail Of Down
Drought Cooling

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