Ancient Persian windcatchers cooled buildings for millennia
Ancient Persian badgirs, or windcatchers, masterfully used natural airflow and evaporative cooling to keep buildings comfortable in scorching deserts for over 3,000 years.
For thousands of years, Persian architects used ingenious windcatchers, called badgirs, to naturally cool buildings in scorching deserts. These towering structures, some reaching 33 meters, captured high-altitude winds and channeled them indoors. The design even incorporated evaporative cooling: air passed over underground water channels, or qanats, lowering temperatures before circulating the refreshed air.
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