redhook concept (9)

Wind catchers have been traditionally used in dense urban fabrics of middle eastern cities, specially on the coastline as an efficient ventilation system, Gathering the wind and force it inside the building.

As I was designing a dense residential form I thought of using the central heating and cooling system as well as main central ventilation system. I placed this mechanism in the towers which are already acting as columns of the hovering structure.
The ventilation system is designed in the way to gather and force air draft inside the units, additional fans are located in the tubes sucking the air to the units. The solar panels on the roofs which also act as shades produce enough electricity for the fans to operate. There is an exhaust system which force the air out, the negative pressure on the opposite side of the tower with the help of fans suck the air out. The wind catcher system help the natural ventilation in the dense housing system where inner units rarely get wind through windows. The air can be warmed or cooled in the tubes. The wind catchers rotate toward the wind and the distance between them is 50 meters which is enough for disturbances caused in the draft as it hits them.