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Housing In Extreme Heat: How Do People Adapt to Extremely Hot Climate?

While constructing houses that beat the climatic restraints of a particular area, bioclimatic influenced architecture plays an important role irrespective of the environment surrounding the house. With the help of detailed research, it is possible to implement design strategies that will lead to the growth of comfort benchmarks. In such cases, the role of an […]

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Architecture in Composite Climate: Effective Design Considerations for Composite Climate

Eeti Goel

India is home to an extraordinary variety of climatic regions, ranging from tropical in the south to temperate and alpine in the Himalayan north, where elevated regions admit sustained downtime snowfall. Climate can influence the planning of towns, buildings, and settlement designs and may evoke strategies to market the efficiency of thermal comfort. The built

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Architecture in Extremely Hot and Dry Climate

Riya Ahuja

Understanding the climatic conditions of a region is very beneficial to the designers and the occupants. Each region has its own list of elements and conditions which should be thought upon before effective designing. In this article, the measures to be taken for effective analysis and planning in hot and dry climates are covered. The

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Architecture in Extremely Cold Climate

Eeti Goel

Nature of the Cold Climate Regions that dwell in the cold climate zone are situated at high altitudes. States such as a Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachala Pradesh, Sikkim, and the northern part of UP have a cold climate. The temperature ranges between 20–30 degrees Celsius in summers, while in winters, it ranges

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Pearl Academy, Jaipur: Where Tradition Meets Contemporary Sustainability

Deepika Shukla

Location: JaipurArea: 3 acresClimatic Zone: Hot-DryArchitects: Morphogenesis Introduction The Pearl Academy of Fashion in Jaipur is a campus that has been designed to provide an environmentally responsive passive habitat. The institute develops dynamic places for a creative student body to work in multipurpose zones that effortlessly integrate the interiors and the outdoors. The institute’s radical architecture is the

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