Contemporary Windcatchers: Forty-Five Meters to Catch the Breeze

A 45-meter-high freestanding ventilation tower, standing in the center of a plaza, circular in plan with a diameter of 4 meters, and a white precast concrete body. The top of the tower has a ring of blades that automatically rotate according to wind direction, drawing upper-level wind into the tower. Inside the tower, water mist nozzles cool the air, and the denser cold air naturally sinks and blows out from openings at the base of the tower. The tower body has no decoration, only the blades at the top and the openings at the bottom. The plaza is surrounded by low-rise terracotta-colored buildings. People stand at the base of the tower feeling the cool breeze. During the day, the tower casts a long, slender shadow on the plaza. Avoid: traditional square adobe wind tower, adding decoration and windows to the tower body, fixed blades at the top, adding sunshades to the plaza.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座高 45 公尺的獨立通風塔,矗立在一個廣場的中央,平面是圓形,直徑 4 公尺,塔身是白色的預鑄混凝土。塔頂有一圈可依風向自動轉動的葉片,把上層的風導入塔內,塔內設水霧噴嘴降溫,冷空氣因為密度大而自然沉降,從塔底的開口吹出。塔身表面沒有任何裝飾,只有頂端的葉片與底部的開口。廣場周邊是低矮的赤陶色建築。人站在塔底感受涼風。日間,塔在廣場上投下細長的影子。避免:做成傳統的方形土坯風塔、塔身加入裝飾與開窗、頂端葉片畫成固定不動、廣場上加設遮陽棚。