How to Dress and Undress your Home | To make buildings more energy-efficient, consider curtains, awnings, wall hangings, and other textile insulation technologies from a time before air conditioning
How to Dress and Undress your Home | To make buildings more energy-efficient, consider curtains, awnings, wall hangings, and other textile insulation technologies from a time before air conditioning
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.
Appropriate technology in action. And as a bonus, textile insulation could use material from all those fast fashion clothes dumped in the desert or otherwise abandoned to dissolve into microplastics :/
Fun fact, adding textiles to walls for insulation is where we get the term "furring" from.
I wish awnings were more common. Such a simple way to block out midday or afternoon sun in the hot summer.
That's where I got the idea from! Excellent channel.