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    Bandaragama House

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    This document discusses strategies for passive cooling in architecture in Colombo, Sri Lanka during the hot and humid month of April. It includes a bioclimatic chart showing the daily pattern of relative humidity and temperature in Colombo. It also provides diagrams of a courtyard building design that utilizes thermal stratification, vertical and horizontal air flow patterns, and an upwind air funnel to passively cool the interior spaces.

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    Bandaragama House

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    This document discusses strategies for passive cooling in architecture in Colombo, Sri Lanka during the hot and humid month of April. It includes a bioclimatic chart showing the daily pattern of relative humidity and temperature in Colombo. It also provides diagrams of a courtyard building design that utilizes thermal stratification, vertical and horizontal air flow patterns, and an upwind air funnel to passively cool the interior spaces.

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    This document discusses strategies for passive cooling in architecture in Colombo, Sri Lanka during the hot and humid month of April. It includes a bioclimatic chart showing the daily pattern of relative humidity and temperature in Colombo. It also provides diagrams of a courtyard building design that utilizes thermal stratification, vertical and horizontal air flow patterns, and an upwind air funnel to passively cool the interior spaces.

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    Bandaragama House

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    Kapil Arora
    This document discusses strategies for passive cooling in architecture in Colombo, Sri Lanka during the hot and humid month of April. It includes a bioclimatic chart showing the daily pattern of relative humidity and temperature in Colombo. It also provides diagrams of a courtyard building design that utilizes thermal stratification, vertical and horizontal air flow patterns, and an upwind air funnel to passively cool the interior spaces.

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    Daily pattern of relative

    humidity and dry bulb


    temperature in relation to
    Colombo, Sri Lanka
    (during the overheated month
    of April)





    Givonis bioclimatic chart
    applied to
    Colombo, Sri Lanka (6.5N
    and 15m above sea)
    View of the central
    courtyard through the
    main entrance
    main entrance and the
    central axis through the
    still water pond
    Plan















    Section of the
    courtyard
    Thermal stratification pattern
    Air temperature differences for ambient
    and
    courtyard at 1.1m in height












    Vertical
    temperature profile in the courtyard at
    1.1m,
    2.5m and 3.5m in height
    Upwind air funnel
    through longitudinal
    axis, simulated
    vertical airflow
    distribution pattern









    Simulated horizontal
    airflow distribution
    pattern

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