Located in Wangjing’s center in Beijing, China, Wangjing SOHO is a mixed-use development that is composed of three towers (118, 127, and 200m height) designed by the Zaha Hadid Architects. The complexes were designed as three interweaving mountains’ that fuse buildings and landscapes to bring together the surrounding community with a new public park. Our research team participated as a wind environmental consultant and analyzed the ways to prevent the pedestrian wind discomfort around the building.

 

The project was carried out with the following steps: 1) Establish the building analytic plan by using the Wind data of the targeted area (base model), 2) Analysis of the air environment around the building and inside the building using a CFD simulation, 3) Finding solutions for both inside and outside the buildings, (4) The evaluation of improved design scheme.

 

The goal of this project was to analyze the wind environment of a high-rise building complex and provide useful mitigation strategies for strong wind. The outdoor analysis was estimated to satisfy wind environment comfort more than 90% annually by installing the wind barriers and the vegetation plans. Also, the indoor wind environment was estimated to be improved by installing the air-curtains.

 

This project was conducted with financial support from the SOHO China.

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