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How to have openings between spaces?

Hello guys,

I am making a building using the Sketchup and Openstudio, in order to make an analysis of the energy consumption of it.

However I have a problem in design, which is the need of openings between spaces. That is, I have a room, but I intend that it has an opening to another space, so that heat and mass exchanges are effected naturally.

The image reflects this situation. The selected surface should be open to a space which is adjacent ...

image description

How can I do this? Because sketchup only has 3 types of surface (floor, wall or roof) ...

I noticed that Openstudio has a subcategory in the materials called Air walls, is that the solution?

Cheers guys,

How to have openings between spaces?

Hello guys,

I am making a building using the Sketchup and Openstudio, in order to make an analysis of the energy consumption of it.

However I have a problem in design, which is the need of openings between spaces. That is, I have a room, but I intend that it has an opening to another space, so that heat and mass exchanges are effected naturally.

The image reflects this situation. The selected surface should be open to a space which is adjacent ...

image description

How can I do this? Because sketchup only has 3 types of surface (floor, wall or roof) ...

I noticed that Openstudio has a subcategory in the materials called Air walls, is that the solution?

Cheers guys,