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Indian Buildings Need to Stop Pretending to Be Western Buildings

5 articles

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The global comfort standard assumes temperate summers. India is not temperate.
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You walk from 42°C pavement into a 22°C lobby. Your body objects.
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Indian researchers built better models. Indian buildings still use the old ones.
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Vernacular architecture outperforms imported standards because it was designed for this heat.
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Every rupee spent forcing Western specs onto Indian heat is a rupee wasted.