Just Enough by Azby Brown

Author:Azby Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4629-1179-0
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Like their counterparts around Japan, these town-houses are models of natural climate control for high-density urban areas. Most have been designed with tiny gardens in back, and quite a few have gardens in the center. These shady and moist tsubo niwa—two-story green shade pockets, really—perform a critical environmental control function, providing a continuous supply of naturally cooled air that is drawn through the rest of the house with the slightest breeze. The tsubo niwa also links the living space on the second floor into the overall air circulation scheme, so that with the deft use of sliding doors and shutters it becomes a highly controllable bi-level cross-ventilation system. Street, shaded front, pocket garden, rear yard, unobstructed but adjustable flow-through ventilation: multiply these elements by the tens of thousands citywide and the genius of the system becomes apparent.

Each side of the block is a rectangular chunk with 60 ken of street frontage (room for thirty or more typical shops), and though the individual lots can extend 20 ken back from the street, most shop buildings require less than a quarter of that. The remaining space is filled with rows of small rental dwellings—single-story, one-room tenements for the most part. These are not slums, but home to people of all ages and from all walks of life: craftsmen, teachers, peddlers, doctors, as well as gardeners, porters, servants, day laborers, and others. There are families of every size and type: couples, unmarried adults, widows.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.