When the 456-meter-tall Kunming Junfa Dongfeng Square tower opens in Kunming City, China, in mid-2017, it will stand as one of the world’s tallest naturally ventilated buildings. Roughly ...

Like the layers of atmosphere that protect our planet from the extreme temperatures and radiation from space, facades provide buildings with the filters and shields that make them habitable for living ...

Environmental comfort is one of the aspects that contribute to the good performance of architecture. In project descriptions, the incidence of natural lighting and ventilation is often highlighted as ...

The ventilated façade is a construction solution that uses a double enclosure distanced from each other by a support structure to generate an air chamber for ventilation. This operation creates a ...

At a scale unheard of in their home country, American architecture firms are using natural ventilation to achieve energy savings, resilience, and patient comfort in two major health-care projects in ...

Like any living organism, buildings need to breathe for their own health and longevity, as well as the health of their occupants. Using natural or mechanical means, a building’s ventilation removes ...