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sinituulia

@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe

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Reminded of this feature of Roman architecture, and 1700s European milk parlour or cheese house architecture that I vaguely recall and am too tired to currently re-look into: The Roman villas would have an open air room inside the walls of the house, shaded by overhanging roofs, and there would also be pools of water. The combination of circulation, shade and water evaporation would keep it one of the coolest rooms in the building.
(Vague recollections, please link a good article if handy!)

sinituulia,
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The milk parlours on the other hand would have a porous tile floor, with either brick, ceramics or stone, and in addition to having a through-draft and shade, they'd splash small amounts of water on the tile floor, and it would drop the ambient temperature several degrees as needed. Both of these were of course buildings much much different than what people live in today, but just idly thinking about how very very effective something so relatively simple was in areas with reasonable humidity.

sinituulia,
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@Dangerous_beans I'm less familiar with the region, but yeah! Also those cooling tower structures, where the winds hits it and physics does physics, so the hot air goes up and is then carried away. Or something like it.
I think traditional Japanese houses also have a high space in one bit of the house to allow the same thing to happen and keep people comfortable inside, just with a different type of shape and airflow?

sinituulia,
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@saruwine Oh heck, I'd forgotten about the lighting and the rainwater collection aspect!
Many things can be said about the Romans but damn could they build stuff with very limited tools and not a lot of modern science. 😶

sinituulia,
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@sewblue I don't know how it works over there, but here you kind of... Gather the general knowledge as you work, so somebody who's lived in the area and worked for 50 years already knows how things settle from that 50 years, what worked and what didn't. Add in generational knowledge and you'd think that regions inhabited by indigenous populations since forever and white since the 1600s... Would have some idea about what works for that area!
Of course it depends if the people doing the work know, you see so much of "unqualified person did a slapdash job for cheap" or "somebody did their best" or "somebody used modern tools to do a historically valid job, but worse" but the general knowledge is there.

I don't know if it's the culture or what, and every new settler doing whatever, but you'd think people knew better?

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