Airflow and wind pressure around a full-size cubical building model in a wind tunnel: basic data for developing a quantitative tool for cross ventilation design.

A new research project in the Building Research Institute aims at developing a quantitative tool for cross ventilation design for buildings. One of the approaches adopted in the project is the experiment in the wind tunnel, where a full-size cubical building model can be used at this stage. In this paper, mainly the first observation result for the building model without openings is shown and discussed.