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Passive Climate Control and the City
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Seeking Comfort Around the House: Migration as a Passive Climatisation Strategy
AUTHOR: Dalila Ghodbane
CONTEXT: Lecture in the Seminar "Theorizing the Urban Passive House," USI Mendrisio, 26.04.2016
KEYWORDS: migration, thermal strategies, courtyard, seasons
Ralph Knowles exposes in his book The Ritual House (2006) three “adjustment to nature’s rhythm”, in other words, three ways to cope with climate in daily life: the transformation of the built environment, mechanical conversion of energy, and migration. In our case, this designates movements of occupants within their own house.