An ancient Japanese well-known essayist, named Kenko, a Buddhist priest, wrote the “Essays in Idleness,” which is called “Tsurezure-gusa” in Japanese. Section 55 of these essays says, “ A house should be built with the summer in mind. In winter it is possible to live anywhere, but a badly made house is unbearable when it gets hot.” Even in modern days, this section is often referred to since it eloquently describes the unbearable hot and humid climate of Japanese summer as well as the Japanese housing conditions. In short, the Japanese traditional houses had such characteristics as having long eaves to prevent sunshine of summer from coming into rooms, or being equipped with large open passages with sliding-wooden-doors for cross-ventilation utilization.
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Heights of the wind tower of Case-V1~7 were H, 4/3H, 5/3H, 2H, 7/3H, 8/3H, and 3H, respectively. H indicated the height of one floor, 360 cm.
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Kamata, M., Imano, M., Akamine, Y., Zheng, Y., Hoshino, H., Tu, YF. (2010). Analysis of Natural Cross-Ventilation for Building Environmental Control. In: Furumai, H., Sato, S., Kamata, M., Yamamoto, K. (eds) Advanced Monitoring and Numerical Analysis of Coastal Water and Urban Air Environment. cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration, vol 3. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-99720-7_4
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