Roofing design..

All the designs I've been sketching have involved this skillion roof design to encourage breezes through and allow more light. I had been interested in Skillion roofs because they provide extra daylighting possibilities as well as ventilation possibilities, but maybe I need to look into another form.

Steph brought to my attention raising the roof above the house to reduce wind resistance through storms which also provides better ventilation possibilities.

I had forgotten about the house I found and talked about in an earlier post as other designs I'd been looking at had more skillion roof designs.


Maybe this type of roof will work just as well as the idea of a skillion type roof. It provides the ventilation shafts I'd diagrammed before, allowing air to travel up the top and out, like in a stack effect.








Harvesting wind off my community centre roof:

A thought came to my mind, that if I'm trying to control the wind, why don't I control it into wind turbines and use it for my benefit.
Small turbines exist that capture the wind off buildings currently and it's not far fetched to assume that the technology will improve even further in 15 years.
If I'm putting solar panels on the roof I may as well also use wind power.

An article talked about these small scale turbines being able to cut electricity costs in half for a New York apartment building, so I'm sure they wouldn't be useless for my site.

Reference:

McDermott, M. 2009. 10 Small Scale wind turbines cut NYC Apartment Building's Electric Costs in Half. Accessed October 26, 2012. http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/10-small-scale-wind-turbines-cut-nyc-apartment-buildingatms-electric-costs-in-half.html.