Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
From sustainable architecture to sustaining comfort practices- Air…
From sustainable architecture to sustaining comfort practices- Air conditioning and its alternatives in Asia (Winter 2017)
Recent years, travel and tourism industry developed a plethora of awards, guidelines and policies directed at greening the industry in recognition of the need to curb energy and resource consumption
-
Many establishments highlight air conditioning as a key feature of their product offering, as fully air conditioned with inoperable windows
General lack of awareness of the issues surrounding indoor thermal comfort and the environmental consequences of creating and maintaining artificially chilled space
-
In Asia, 40-60% of building energy demand is for cooling via electronic air conditioning.
Singapore and Malaysia are air-conditioned nations have developed forms of engineering and architecture designed to curb the reliance on energy-intensive methods of cooling
Topic of air conditioning too often lies beyond debates about sustainable practice or the ethics of sustainable consumption
-
-
-
Conclusion
Need a more critical analysis of interior spaces , air conditioning technology has been critical to the expansion of high-rise architecture and rapid urban development across much of Asia- a powerful element of modernity and economic development across many nation-states in the region
The value of conserving non air con architecture, with architectural response it not enough to destabilise current trends towards AC usage
Highlighted the need to re frame indoor space as bundles and configurations of comfort practice as the means to revive and retain low-carbon alternatives to air conditoning