wind-scoop
wind-scoop. Funnel-like feature of domestic architecture in the Middle East: air is carried or blown down to the interiors, sometimes into underground chambers and over cold-water tanks, and then up again to the inhabited rooms. It demonstrates sophisticated technical mastery of climate-control in Islamic culture, probably as early as C14.
Bibliography
Cruickshank (ed.) (1996)
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