How Hong Kong kept cool before air conditioning – by copying India

Sustainability has become a buzzword in recent years and more-form-than-substance “green initiatives” inevitably lead to accusations of “greenwashing”. But how did buildings in the past help define an earlier era’s notions of practical sustainability?Above all else, the aim in Hong Kong and elsewhere in maritime Asia was to keep a building’s occupants sustainably cool – and therefore healthy, a vital consideration in the disease-prone tropics – in the days before mechanical cooling methods,…

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