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Termite Mound: Building Design of the Future

Termite Mound: Building Design of the Future. By: Ciara Evans. What Does It Do?. The building “East gate Centre” was designed to use passive cooling. Passive cooling works by cooling in the day and venting at night. It was biomimetically modeled on local Termite mounds.

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Termite Mound: Building Design of the Future

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  1. Termite Mound: Building Design of the Future By: Ciara Evans

  2. What Does It Do? • The building “East gate Centre” was designed to use passive cooling. • Passive cooling works by cooling in the day and venting at night. • It was biomimetically modeled on local Termite mounds. • First building in the world to use natural cooling to the level of advanced.

  3. “East gate Centre” Termite Mound

  4. What Animal Was Designed And What Is The Function? • Animal= Termites • A private complex of vents and tunnels • On the outside there is an opening that leads to the vents • The air travels to involve the heat from the Termites and rises

  5. Termite Ecology • They eat= Cellulose in various forms as plant fiber • What eats them= Ants, Monkeys • Habitat= Termites like to live, and feed in moist wood • Termite mounds are built out of dirt from the grass lands

  6. The Inside Of The Termite Mound

  7. Video

  8. What Is The History Of This Technology • Completed 1990 On Robert Mugabe Avenue • Martin Lasher studied the nests created by the termites In the 1960’s • He developed the connection between how the mounds are built and how air was ventilated throughout them

  9. Advantages To This Model • Eastgate Centre only uses 10% of the energy that other building would use to cool themselves

  10. Classification of Termites • Kingdom=Animalia • Phylum=Apthropoda • Class=Insecta • Order=Isoptera

  11. Reference • Http://www.drdons.net • Http://www.cassandramaurer.blogspot.com • Http://www.ehow.com • Http://www.pestworldforkids.org • Http://www.wikipedia.org • Http://www.conservationmagazine.org • Http://www.pestworldforkids.org

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