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user-inactivated  ·  4136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to live without air conditioning

air conditioning is one of the things i hate the most about modern society. it's not something one can easily change on their own, especially considering people spend a lot of time in rooms owned by their employers, who set the thermostat as they see fit. if you try to change your own AC use you'll either be too warm at home or too cold everywhere else. it has to change on a societal level to work properly.





NotPhil  ·  4136 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    air conditioning is one of the things i hate the most about modern society.

I don't dislike air conditioning; I dislike our dependence on it.

I just don't get why architects will use the same design for a building in the Southwest and a building in the Northeast. We have millennia worth of examples of how to design buildings for different climates, but we just build sealed masonry boxes and then blast the air conditioners in them instead. It's a waste of energy.

user-inactivated  ·  4136 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I don't dislike air conditioning; I dislike our dependence on it.

I suppose this is the proper way of saying it. I'm lazy with my specificity sometimes.

    I just don't get why architects will use the same design for a building in the Southwest and a building in the Northeast.

Architecture isn't part of regional culture anymore. It wouldn't be unusual for the same architect to design a buildings in both locations, or even one building that's duplicated in both locations.

When buildings are contracted, they are subject to the same nearsightedness as the rest of the economy: they pick something 'good enough' and cheap as possible. So that means cookie-cutter design.

b_b  ·  4136 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yup. It's 65 here in MI today, yet I'm in a office, underneath a vent that is blasting me with cold air, and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it.