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One of the things I’m going to be interested to see over the next couple decades is what happens to building design - especially for houses, we’ve switched enti
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One of the things I’m going to be interested to see over the next couple decades is what happens to building design - especially for houses, we’ve switched entirely over to a mode of building that’s effectively optimized for cost and consistency, as opposed to localized to the environment. You’ve got houses built the same in Arizona and Montana, which is insane on the face of it and assumes sufficient energy availability that we can ignore local climates. It would be great to see a move back towards those older building techniques that are tailored better towards their environments.
- germinalphrase 5y agoIf we have any architecture buffs here, I’d love a starting point for learning more about climate specific architectural design (that doesn’t center around active climate technologies like HVAC). Keywords?
- jazzyjackson 5y agoCheck out the wind catchers or wind-towers (burj al hawwa) of Iran [0], as well as Qatar [1] <- some helpful diagrams Jaali is the latticework that at first glance is merely decorative but is in fact functional, see this paper [2]: "Different names- Takhrima in Yemen, Shanashil or Roshan in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, with differences in design, materials, etc., calls them but the function remained the same as a climate control tool in the harsh deserts." [0] https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180926-an-ancient-engineering-feat-that-harnessed-the-wind https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180926-an-ancient-engin... [1] https://www.iloveqatar.net/guide/places/traditional-air-conditioning-cooling-in-doha-qatar https://www.iloveqatar.net/guide/places/traditional-air-cond... [2] https://ijseas.com/volume2/v2i2/ijseas20160211.pdf https://ijseas.com/volume2/v2i2/ijseas20160211.pdf