My apartment is south facing it’s sun warmed but apparently not air cooled. I wouldn’t be surprised if the building grew taller during the day as the building materials expanded. I’m frankly surprised it doesn’t spread out into the road or obstruct flight paths to Narita during the day.
You would think that architects would have to consider the environmental effects when they were designing it. They don’t seem to, which is rather like a boat designer not really being concerned about water. As things progress and weather becomes more extreme I imagine architects will become masters of the clip on technological fix. It’s too hot, let’s put in AC units. Ah the AC units are too heavy for the roof, well let’s reinforce it. What we need deeper foundations to support the extra weight and earthquakes could be a problem? Well we could put a gyroscopic weight on the roof to counter sway in the event of an earthquake, and we could install foundation dampers when we have to raise the entire building on hydraulics so as to make the foundations deeper.
You have to think that there’s a thing as too much learning sometimes. What is it, like 4 years of Uni so Japanese designers can design a 14 storey free standing solar oven, whose secondary function appears to be baking it’s occupants in summer.
There’s been ways around this sort of things since time immemorial, but it seems only the architects in the less advanced nations have mastered any of them. It’s interesting to note that progress these seems to be defined as the ability to call oneself advanced while simultaneously going backwards, without I might add watching where you are going.
People aren’t killing the planet. It’s the blind stupidity of people who should know better that is killing the planet.
Ask anyone in the street what they want from a house and they’ll tell you. I’d like it to be cool in the blistering heat of summer and warm in the chill of winter. And here we have architects giving us a technological balancing act that does nothing but suck in power, convert it into heat and then add it to the reflective radiated heat of the concrete.
I warrant that if one were to come up with a definition for moron it would say ‘See Architect’.
