Before Air Conditioning Existed, Buildings Worked. Here is the Façade Logic Behind That

Walk through a 500-year-old haveli in Rajasthan on a summer afternoon, and you will notice something that feels almost impossible. It is cooler inside than outside, with no mechanical systems running. This was not a coincidence. It was climate-responsive façade design, practiced long before the term existed. Ancient Indian builders understood something that modern construction […]