9 Bioclimatic Designs - Low Carbon Materials Processing

A different approach: the Architecture, the
physical stuff of the building, is configured to
moderate the internal environment,
‘the weather within’ .
Sue Roaf’s sketch section through one of the wind-catcher
cooled houses in Yazd on the central Iranian Plateau.
’The structures are plain atop, only Ventoso’s or Funnels
for to let in the Air. No house is left without this
contrivance….giving at once a pleasing Spectacle to
Strangers and kind refreshment to the inhabitants’
(John Fryer 1698)