Most of us who have built our own houses, know that, in India at least, it is foolish to have too many windows on our western walls. The summer sun through the glass makes for unbearable green house effect.
How come all architects who design office buildings, believe in glass-fronts? It does not require much scientific knowledge to realise that it is foolish to trap the heat. The airconditioning bill would soar. So even if the architect is unthinking, why are the owners of such buildings not aware? Why can we not have office buildings that are not glass fronted? Let in fresh air and cool the office except those few summer months when we can have the AC?
Another mystery to me are hospital buildings. Most OPDs are underground with NO ventilation. Why? so that even a seasonal flu maybe passed on unfailingly, not to mention MDR tubercolosis? The AC ducts servicing the rooms are filthy. Why? what's wrong with good old fashioned windows? those that let in outside air-however polluted? I would rather breathe in diesel flavoured air than MDR baccilli.
How come all architects who design office buildings, believe in glass-fronts? It does not require much scientific knowledge to realise that it is foolish to trap the heat. The airconditioning bill would soar. So even if the architect is unthinking, why are the owners of such buildings not aware? Why can we not have office buildings that are not glass fronted? Let in fresh air and cool the office except those few summer months when we can have the AC?
Another mystery to me are hospital buildings. Most OPDs are underground with NO ventilation. Why? so that even a seasonal flu maybe passed on unfailingly, not to mention MDR tubercolosis? The AC ducts servicing the rooms are filthy. Why? what's wrong with good old fashioned windows? those that let in outside air-however polluted? I would rather breathe in diesel flavoured air than MDR baccilli.
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