Legacy Ideas are now read-only and have been migrated to our new platform: Aha! Click Here

New

Driving Rain Display Style

Driving Rain Rose: Anyone come across this before?

  • Wind roses are pretty common. They usually have wind direction, wind speed, duration and time of year info tabulated.
  • Precipitation charts are also pretty common. They tabulate precipitation, duration and time of year info.

Should be straight forward to mash up the data to produce a Driving Rain Rose spreadsheet.

This could then be used as means to provide a 'Driving Rain' Display Style. Mstn's insolation and slope display styles have proved incredibly useful. 

A DR Display Style would be great for informing the location and design of louvres and overhangs (a key consideration for station design where wet floors are a big big problem). More importantly, exposure to driving rain is a major determinant for the durability of the building enclosure and room environmental comfort, as recognised by ASHRAE 160P

The Display Style would 'paint' the external envelope with a gradient map (similar to the way the Insolation / Solar Analysis tool works). 

This kind of tools would be particularly useful when you can not fall back on expensive / advanced cladding techniques and have to be 'smart' and responsive...