How Ancient Persian Building Design Captured Wind Energy Underground - This Big City
Environmentally conscious buildings have been around for much longer than the public debut of our modern environmental crisis. Since the early 19th century, residents of Yazd, Iran, have been using wind as an alternative energy source to cool their homes on warm summer days. A ‘windcatcher’ (called the badgir in Farsi) is an ancient Persian […]
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