With perhaps the exception of the architecture of the Machine Age, buildings across history have collaborated with nature. Tara and its southern kin wouldn’t sport generous porches if their makers hadn’t recognized the need to deflect direct sunlight from interiors. For a savvy contemporary example, consider the Harare, Zimbabwe, Eastgate Building, whose architecture is based on self-cooling termite mounds to reduce ventilation energy consumption by 90 percent.
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