{"id":32315,"date":"2020-11-03T15:11:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simscale.com\/?page_id=32315"},"modified":"2023-07-24T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:27:38","slug":"architype-passivhaus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.simscale.com\/customers\/architype-passivhaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Architype\u00a0Validates Their Classroom HVAC System Against the Passivhaus Standard With SimScale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Architype<\/strong> Validates Their Classroom HVAC System Against the Passivhaus Standard With SimScale<\/h1> <\/div> <\/div>
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Architype is a vibrant and dynamic architectural practice, celebrated for high performance, low-energy designs that still look and feel aspirational. From universities to world-leading archive facilities, they design life-enhancing, genuinely sustainable architecture. They get there by focusing on both the people who will use the building, and the physics that will govern it, right from the outset. And that means continual research into natural ventilation, daylight strategies, and the kind of low carbon, non-toxic materials that make their buildings inspiring and optimistic places to work, live, and relax – research which enables Architype to keep pioneering low energy design in the UK, and keep delivering buildings that perform exactly as they were drawn up. Architype creates inspiring and optimistic places in which people can live, work, and relax; in buildings that perform as they should; delivered through an enjoyable, trouble-free, design, and construction process.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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ASSESSING THE VENTILATION STRATEGY OF AN EXAMPLE PASSIVHAUS CLASSROOM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The challenge that brought Architype to SimScale involved assessing the heating and ventilation strategy of a classroom in a typical Passivhaus school during winter conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passivhaus<\/a> buildings are known to have strict environmental and energy performance criteria<\/a> to meet, and it\u2019s these requirements which push designers to consider the impact of building physics at an earlier stage of the design process. Architype worked with SimScale to model and simulate those concepts using an example Passivhaus classroom layout, based upon their previous designs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passivhaus schools incorporate many innovative features especially pertaining to the supply of fresh air, heat, and air circulation. These qualities are perfect for simulating through Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with cloud-based platforms such as SimScale. Whereas thermal modelling tools can be enough to evaluate the heating\/cooling loads and energy breakdown at a room\/zonal level, CFD is a required tool to better understand the building physics within a space and the building envelope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this case, Architype and SimScale worked together to define the exact baseline scenario incorporating all the boundary conditions needed to accurately represent a specific cross section of the classroom being modelled. Spending time thoroughly building the base case in the simulation model gave the study a robust starting point to explore multiple design scenarios. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A well tested and validated base case was then used to alter parameters of the hypothetical school building\u2015and the simulation setup\u2015to run multiple scenarios. Using SimScale, these scenarios and various model configurations were then all run in parallel on the cloud, saving time and money. <\/p>\n\n\n <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

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How They Solved It With SimScale<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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SimScale and Architype accounted for the following parameters in the simulation setup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n