Ventilating: Working Bodies, Climate, and Architecture

Article Sidebar

PDF (Español | English) (Español (España))
Published: Sep 4, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i22.523

Keywords:



Ventilation
Colonialism
Punkah
social Justice
Architecture
Bodies
Issue
No. 22 (2022): Materia Arquitectura 22 (Agosto/August 2022)
Section
Articles

Main Article Content

Abstract

‘Ventilate. Working bodies, climate, and architecture’ examines air as a critical material and the architectures that were developed to facilitate its movement in interior spaces. The text analyses the relationships between bodies, climate, and architecture through contexts and historic projects and their connection with contemporary conflicts. In particular, it explores how the development of ventilation systems for interior spaces was driven by the regimes of colonialism and slavery.

Article Details



Marina Otero Verzier
Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Materia Arquitectura provides immediate and free access to all the content of this online edition, published simultaneously with the print edition.

Materia Arquitectura does not charge authors for any concept.

All contents of this electronic edition are distributed under the Creative Commons license of "Attribución-shareAlike 4.0 Internacional" (CC-BY-SA).

The rights of the published texts and images belong to their authors, who grant Materia Arquitectura the license for their use. The management of the permits and the authorization of the publication of the images (or of any material) that contains copyright and its consequent rights of reproduction in this publication is the sole responsibility of the authors of the articles.

As long as they mention their origin, the authors are free to distribute their articles by other means. Any total or partial reproduction of the material must mention its origin.

Otero Verzier, M. (2022). Ventilating: Working Bodies, Climate, and Architecture. Materia Arquitectura, (22), 65–74. https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i22.523

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Assessing the global climate in July 2021. (2021, agosto 10). National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202107

Barron, J. (1830). Drawing of fan moved by mechanism. Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, Record Group 241. National Archives Identifier: 594907. https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/drawing-of-fan-moved-by-mechanism

Byrd, D. E. (2016). Motive power: Fans, punkahs, and fly brushes in the Antebellum South. Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, 23(1), 29–51. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.23.1.0029

Chakraborty, S. (2017, octubre 16). Technologies of domestic labour. Servants Pasts. https://servantspasts.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/domestic-gadgets-and-domestic-servants-in-late-colonial-british-households/

Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático. (2021). Comunicado de prensa del IPCC. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2021/08/IPCC_WGI-AR6-Press-Release-Final_es.pdf

Koolhaas, R. (2002). Junkspace. October, 100, 175–190.

New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance. (n.d.). Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP). New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance. http://otda.ny.gov/programs/heap/Default.asp

Peinado, F. (2021, agosto 13). Refugiados climáticos en el centro comercial: “Tenemos 25 grados; fuera, 39”. El País. https://elpais.com/espana/madrid/2021-08-13/refugiados-climaticos-en-el-centro-comercial-tenemos-25-grados-afuera-39.html

Philippe Rahm Architectes. (n.d.). Interior Gulf Stream: Housing and studio for Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Recuperado el 29 de junio de 2022 de http://www.philipperahm.com/data/projects/interiorgulfstream/index.html

Sadurní, J. M. (2021, agosto 5). El abanico, un instrumento para combatir el calor y para comunicarse. Historia National Geographic. https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/abanico-instrumento-para-combatir-calor-y-para-comunicarse_17062

Sengupta, R. (2020, agosto 10). The punkah and its pullers: A short history. Servants Pasts. https://servantspasts.wordpress.com/2020/08/10/the-punkah-and-its-pullers-a-short-history/

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1868). Egyptian lotus motifs, fans, boats, and paddles (Shelf locator: PC dESI-Egy) [Impresión]. NYPL Catalog ID (B-number): b17139300. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-0142-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99