• CWSmith@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This looks like some other things I have heard of before.

    Makes me wonder how many ancient desert cultures designed ways to cool the air in their structures.

    • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      One othe trick was to build houses close to each other with narrow streets between them, so they would be in the shade of buildings most of the time. This way the city can actually be cooler than the open area around it.

      Of course this won’t work anymore with large modern glass buildings or wide roads between them.