Wind Catcher (2024)

FAQs

What is the wind catcher? ›

A windcatcher, wind tower, or wind scoop (Persian: بادگیر) is a traditional architectural element, originated in Iran (Persia), used to create cross ventilation and passive cooling in buildings.

Design and Function

This movement of areas is what creates the wind. Save this picture! A windcatcher is a chimney-like structure made of clay, wood, or bricks, constructed on the rooftop of houses, mosques, or storage rooms to harness the cool breeze and direct it downwards towards the interior space.

Windcatcher natural ventilation is a low-energy approach that can provide effective ventilation during favourable weather conditions. When combined with different cooling, heating, and dehumidification technologies, windcatchers can provide enhanced indoor environment quality.

For the regions with the favorable prevailing wind, their openings should be designed in windward side to direct air flows to the indoor spaces. The opening of a windcatcher can be on the leeward side in order to suck the indoor air by the negative airflow pressure.

Wind catchers are used as vernacular architecture in ancient Egypt, Babylonians, Persian, and Arabs. According to regions, their local name is Persian Badgir or Shish Khan, which serve as temperature regulators and ventilation devices.

To quote GoSuNoob: Yes, you absolutely can use the Wind Catcher in Genshin Impact more than once. You can use it as many times as you want, as long as you have it charged.

So apparently the wind catcher is a permanent item, and yet apparently we can craft it more than once.

Wind catchers are tall, chimney-like structures that protrude from the rooftops of older houses in many of Iran's desert cities. In their simplest form, wind catchers harness the cool breezes and redirect them downwards either into the home or into underground storage rooms to refrigerate perishable foods.

While the Wind Catcher can be used in another player's world and charges will be consumed normally, it cannot be recharged until the player returns to their own world.

The wind catcher is a natural solution for the climatic problems in hot climates. It functions based on the principle of cold air suction from higher elevations into buildings or through underground ducts for heat exchange with the cooler soil.

How tall should a wind catcher be? ›

The height of the wind catcher should be so that it captures wind at an acceptable speed, in many areas this is 8 metres high. Wind catchers with multiple sides and openings are the least efficient, with the tower's height of more importance than the number of openings.

Due, to high ambient temperature and humidity a great share of buildings energy consumption is related to cooling and ventilation systems. Windcatcher can reduce temperature and provide fresh air for occupants as well as reduction in CO2 concentration inside the building.

Introduction. A windcatcher, also known as a windtower, is an architectural element used for natural ventilation. Windcatchers are traditional in Persian architecture, as well as in Ancient Egypt, and can be found across the Middle East.

Abstract. Natural ventilation and cooling have played an essential role in providing comfort conditions. Windcatchers are passive cooling systems and one of the most familiar elements in Iranian architecture. They can significantly influence on reduce cooling loads and supply the necessary ventilation rate of buildings ...

Wind Catcher has up to five charges, and Genshin Impact players can recharge it. To add charges, they need to walk over an Anemograna (the little wind spirits that come in sets of three for creating a wind current).

In Egypt the wind catchers is called ̳malqaf' and it is shaft rising high above the building with uni -directional opening facing the prevailing wind. The malqaf catches the wind flowing over the buildings and internal air ducts it down into the spaces of the house. The malqaf dates back to very early times.

Meanwhile, ruins of a Persian fire temple dating to 4000BC feature numerous chimney-like structures, some of which have no trace of ashes, leading Iranian architects to posit that wind catchers originated in Iran.

Has a cooldown of 100 seconds and cannot be used in combat. A bottle that is able to hold the Anemograna and use their energy to generate wind currents.