Phillip Rham :

Gulf Stream
MARIAM MEDHAT LAMLOUM 19P6960

ALIA BASSAM MOATAZ 19P8894

MAZEN MOHAMED 19P7578

SOHAILA KHALED ROSHDY 19P1877

MARIEM KHALED MOUSSA 19P8630

Introduction
• The orientation of the building also plays a role in receiving warmer
air and cooler air

• Thermal comfort can be achieved by various solutions along the

levelling
1.levelling and ventilation (atmospheric solution);
2. drinking (physiological solution);
3. taking off clothes (social solution);
4. resting (physical solution);
5. stimulating a sense of coolness with the mind (neurological solution)
Concept
• The thermodynamic phenomena of the Gulf Stream is one of the
most fascinating model for thinking architecture today because it
gives a route to escape from the normalization and the
homogenization of the modern space.

• Gulf stream aims to produce a different thermal zones resulting

from the convection between warm air and cool air
• This climatic phenomenon is created by the polarization in the space of two
different thermal sources: one high cold source at one side and one low
warm source at the other side.

• These two sources of heat, like two different thermal poles creating a
thermodynamic tension inside the all house: one pole is cold at 15 °C and
situated in the upper layers of air of the house. The opposite pole is warm,
at 22°C situated in the lower layers of the space
• Two horizontal metal planes are extended at different heights. The lower
plane is heated to 22°C, the upper one is cooled to 15°C. Like a
miniature Gulf Stream, their position creates a movement of air using the
natural phenomenon of convection, in which rising hot air cools on
contact with the upper cool sheet and, falling, is then reheated on contact
with the hot sheet, thus creating a constant thermal flow
 we analyze the variation of temperature and his
distribution in all the space and find then places for
activities, according to specific temperatures.

Living rooms 20
Bedrooms 16 to 18
Bedrooms also used as living rooms 20
Bathrooms 22
Kitchens 18 to 20
Hallways, toilet 15 to 18
Staircases 12
Laundry room 12
Drying room 12
• The floors and the open spaces are therefore designed to
follow the form taken by the air in the entire height of the
building, in accordance with vertical air movements in relation
to temperature, and the functions that are suggested as a
result. Next, various functions take their places in an obvious
manner on this stratification from the coldest to the warmest.
Consequences
• This thermal polarization in the space generates a convective movement of
air, which defines different zones with different temperatures.
Modernity led to uniform, consistent spaces in which the temperature is
regulated around 21 degrees

• The aim here is to restore diversity to the relation that the body maintains
with space, with its temperature, to allow seasonal movement within the
house, migrations from downstairs to upstairs, from cold to warm, winter and
summer, dressed and undressed

• For people to feel comfortable in a heated room there must be equilibrium in

the exchange of heat occurring via convection between their bodies and the
surrounding air.
Our apartment

• Bedrooms and the bathroom can be raised to higher level to be in a warmer

atmosphere, because at these spaces people wear less clothes and perform
slight activities.

• Reception and kitchen will remain in the same location as more activities are
done in them, they are already located in the warmer zone of the apartment,
and users are properly dressed most of the time.

• Adham’s room will be in the same place to maintain the general area of the
apartment, but it will be directed towards the north to get cooler air.