A wind-catcher in Bam, a photo from Kerman, East

Photographer's Note

It's a wind-catcher(not the one you saw the inside last time).
In hot&dry central areas of Iran,wind-catchers made the houses cool...
But how ?
1.during the day,because they were "faced" to the wind,it entered them,went down ,entered the house,made a very ideal air-condition system .
(the wind-cathers had 1,2,3 or both 4 faces open, depending on the direction of "good"kind of wind)
2.during the night,again the wing entered the wind-catcher,it "got" the heat(of the day) from its "sides"(made of sun-dried brick),then they became very cool.this way,the wind passing through it in daylong , became cool.also,the trees,shaddows & water- in the yard helped to keep the house cool & fresh .
sun-dried brickes are VERY good insulators

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mortijo (12828) 2004-01-13 12:07

A very interesting picture and an even more intersting note. This is what I expect from TE.
As the picture wasilted I did a workshop. Hope youlike it.

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mathiasmo (1759) 2004-01-13 12:57

ok, as a brazilian architect, must say that we should learn from you how to project eco-correctly. Living in a tropical country, by now every ar conditioning artefact is working at full power, spending precious energy that could be used more rationally. Great subject, great notes. The photo quality is not that good (I think it's because of the scanning process), but that doesn't matter to me in this case. Thanks for educating me on this.

Djipi (368) 2004-01-13 14:50

I agree with John's opinion. This is a very interesting bundle picture/note. Of course, we deal here with an architect who explains architecture; so no wonder the note is informative. We can't expect that every photograph published on TE bring such an educational content, but I'd like to see more people, not only showing their country, but explaining it.

Georges (11185) 2004-01-13 15:31

L'image est bien prйsentй le contraste est bon mais l'image est trop compressй a peine 39 Ko c'est vraiment dommage car les pixels reste trop visible.
Vous pouvez aller jusqu'a 200ko je pense que la photo en vaut la peine
Je vais essayer un WS pour diminuer l'excиs de pixel
Amicalement Fariba

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Rockyboy (20598) 2004-01-13 18:22

La note semble trиs intйressante, Fariba. Sur mon йcran, l'image semble petite mais c'est sans doute parceque j'ai un plus grand йcran que vous. Je trouve que le workshop de Georges est йgalement bien rйalisй. Merci de faire partager l'architecture de votre pays sur TrekEarth!

meyavuz (741) 2004-01-14 1:29

Thanks for sharing this informative photo, I think it is very imaginative how they use it as an air-conditioning system. Hope it is still there after the devastating earthquake

roshangar (1682) 2004-01-14 11:02

cogratulation Fariba,you are successful in your way...nice idea and note but I think if you want to take another pic from it now,you will take a bettet,is't it?

soundsangels (1703) 2004-01-14 11:30

Je suis bien content d`avoir connu ce type d`architecture et son utilitй, grace а vous merci

samakar (187) 2004-01-21 10:55

Welcome to TE!
Your pics are carefully commented which makes them very interesting but I hope their quality could be better. I think this picture could be better if you tilted a bit ccw.