Robust design - form follows funk: National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield.
The four performance space drums are topped with massive turrets that turn the air intakes in synchrony synchrony /syn·chro·ny/ (-krah-ne) the occurrence of two events simultaneously or with a fixed time interval between them.
atrioventricular (AV) synchrony to face the wind. The fresh air is forced down the annular annular /an·nu·lar/ (an´u-ler) ring-shaped.
an·nu·lar
adj.
Shaped like or forming a ring.
annular
ring-shaped. wall cavity and enters the space through the floor. Fan coils in the wall cavity heat and cool the incoming air. Hot air is sucked out by boyancy and negative wind pressure on the downwind down·wind
adv.
In the direction in which the wind blows.
down wind exhaust cowl.
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