TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD & SUMMARY;
GREENHOUSE WORKER
DIRECT AIR CAPTURE PLANT MANAGEMENT INDUSTRIAL CHEMIST
ENSURE CO2 REDUCTION IN ATMOSPHERE ALLOWS FOR OPTIMAL TRANSITION OF SEASONS; I.E. REDUCE IT BUT NOT ENOUGH TO PREVENT SUMMER FROM HAPPENING
ENSURE AMINE AND SODIUM PEROXIDE
SOLUTIONS ARE ADJUSTED TO HIGH BUT DECREASING LEVELS OF CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE
ENSURE COMPOST SLABS KEEP A SLOWER METABOLISM (COLD COMPOST) TO CREATE A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT BETWEEN THEM AND THE SEEBECK GENERATORS ON THE HOT SOLAR COOKERS
SUMMER DUTIES: WINTER DUTIES: RESULTS: SYSTEM: POSITIONS AVAILABLE:
SUMMER DUTIES: WINTER DUTIES: RESULTS:
ROUTINELY MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT SO AS NOT TO BE AFFECTED BY INCLEMENT WEATHER
ENSURE AMINE AND SODIUM PEROXIDE
SOLUTIONS ARE ADJUSTED TO LOW BUT INCREASING LEVELS OF CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE
ENSURE COMPOST SLABS KEEP A FASTER METABOLISM (HOT COMPOST) TO CREATE A TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM AND THE SEEBECK GENERATORS ON THE COLD OUT-OF-USE SOLAR COOKERS
YEAR-ROUND TEMPERATURE GRADIENT TO CREATE
CONVECTIVE FLOWS FOR WATER AND ELECTRICITY
GREENHOUSE MAINTENANCE YEAR-ROUND
LOWER CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE ALSO LOWERS THE AMOUNT OF HEAT THAT BE BE TRAPPED IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND LOWERS TEMPERATURES
THE OBVIOUS FOCUS OF HEAT FARMERS IS IN THE NAME: HEAT, ACCOMPANIED BY A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF ITS RELATIONSHIP TO WELLNESS, COMMUNITY, AND FORM. MY HOPE IS THAT IF ONE WERE TO STEP BACKWARD FAR ENOUGH TO SEE THE FULL PROJECT AND HEAT-SPECIFIC RESEARCH AS ITS OWN ENTITY, BEHIND IT - AND TO ITS RIGHT AND LEFT - THEY WOULD FIND THE ROOT OF A NEW PARADIGM FOR DERIVING FORM AND VERNACULAR IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE.
THE DESIGN METHODOLOGY IN HEAT FARMERS – ON A VERY BASIC LEVEL – RECOGNIZES THE INEXTRICABLE TIE BETWEEN BUILDING SYSTEMS AND INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS, AND IN TURN, INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS TO COMMUNITY WELLNESS AND PLACEMAKING. IT TIES A TECHNICAL APPROACH TO A HUMANISTIC APPROACH, FOCUSING ON THE ONE HAND ON THE RIGOROUS DEPLOYMENT OF SYSTEMS AND THEIR TECHNOLOGY, YET ON THE OTHER HAND, APPLIED TO THE FRAMEWORK OF THE HUMAN BODY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES WE HAVE IN A SPACE, WHICH STEM FROM SENSORY EXPERIENCES, WHICH ARE ULTIMATELY DERIVED FROM SAID BUILDING SYSTEMS.
HEALTHY HOME AND A E THE OUTD RS
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THUS, THE SYSTEM - AT ITS MOST INTRICATE, DETAIL LEVEL – CAN SERVE AS A LAUNCHING PAD FOR BROADER FORM FINDING, COMMUNITY SCULPTING, AND HUMAN EXPERIENCES IN ARCHITECTURE. FOCUSING ON THE SYSTEM FIRST ALLOWS US TO CONTROL WITH MORE PRECISION EXACTLY HOW A BUILDING WILL PERFORM. AND WHEN WE APPROACH IT WITH THE TRUE END GOAL OF WELLNESS (IN ITS BROAD YET COMPREHENSIVE FULLNESS, WHICH I WILL DEFINE HERE), THE RESULT IS IMPROVEMENT IN THE HUMAN CONDITION, NOT INDUSTRIAL-AGE EFFICIENCY. CONTEMPORARY BUILDING SYSTEMS AS WE SEE THEM DEPLOYED TODAY ARE A FLAWED ATTEMPT AT RECREATING OUR OPTIMAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN ENCLOSED SPACES. YET, THE EFFECTS THEY CREATE IN US WERE NEVER SEPARATE FROM OUR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN EMOTIONAL, MENTAL, PHYSICAL, AND SOCIAL NEEDS, THE WAY WE EVOLVED THEM. TECHNICALITY IN ARCHITECTURE IS THE GREATEST TOOL WE HAVE TO UNLOCK IMPROVED HUMANISTIC ARCHITECTURE TO ELEVATE OUR HOLISTIC WELLNESS. HOW A SPACE PERFORMS AND HOW IT MAKES US FEEL ARE NOT TRULY SEPARATE QUESTIONS. TO ME, IN A FULLY RESOLVED ARCHITECTURE, ALL DETAILS AND THEIR METRICS ULTIMATELY TRACE BACK TO THE HUMAN BODY.
REALIZE YOUR DREAM. BE A PION R. TAKE ACTION. JOIN THE HEAT FARMER MOVEMENT.
YOU - WHO MIGRATED HERE WHEN YOUR HOME WAS SWELTERING, WHO CAME WITH A DREAM! MOVE SUBCONCIOUSLY TO THE MORE DESIRABLE PARTS OF THE CITY STI REMAINING, ONLY TO EACH PA ING YEAR. YOU, WHO FEAR EACH DAY THAT OUR ENERGY RESOURCES WI ONE DAY COUNTERACT THE VICIOUS HEAT. THE MILWAUK DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS CA S UPON DREAM OF A VIABLE FUTURE FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND IS PREPARED TO PROVIDE AN INITIAL SALARY STARTING AT $80,000 FOR THOSE WHO EMBRACE THE CAR R OF A HEAT FARMER. THAT INFUSES MEANING LIFE, THAT YOU CAN WEAR BADGE OF HONOR. JOIN TO HARVEST A OF THE AND CARBON DIOXIDE OUR GENERATIONS HAVE LEFT US, TRANSFORM IT INTO BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES IN WHICH YOU WI LIVE AND THRIVE.
I DEFINE WELLNESS AS A HOLISTIC STANDARD OF MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PHYSICAL HEALTH THAT ALLOWS THE HUMAN BODY TO SELF-SUSTAIN WHILE RETAINING ITS BASIC FUNCTIONS. (MORE ON THIS IN THE FOLLOWING THEORY SECTION). INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS IS TIED TO COMMUNITY WELLNESS BECAUSE IT AFFECTS OUR ABILITY TO GATHER AND FUNCTION IN GROUPS; AND AT THE SAME TIME, SYMBIOTICALLY REQUIRES OF US HEALTHY GROUP FUNCTION TO FULFILL INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS NEEDS. THE WELLNESS OF INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY ARE ONE AND THE SAME, AND ANY NECESSARY CATALYST FOR WELLNESS - AT ANY ENTRY POINT IN THIS CYCLE – IS NECESSARY FOR ALL OF IT. HEAT IS ONE OF THOSE CATALYSTS. TAKEN A STEP FURTHER, ARCHITECTURE BECOMES PART OF THIS CYCLE WHEN WE REALIZE THAT BUILDINGS CAN EITHER SUPPORT OR DISRUPT MENTAL, PHYSICAL, AND SOCIAL WELLNESS. WELLNESS STEMS FROM OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT. INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY WELLNESS FEED ON EACH OTHER. ALL THREE CREATE A SUCCESSFUL INTERPLAY WHEN WE CENTER BUILDING PERFORMANCE ON THE DETAIL LEVEL. WHEN WE USE THE DETAIL ITSELF TO SCULPT BEAUTIFUL FORM AND SPACE – EVEN QUESTIONABLY ORNAMENT – AND WE USE CONTEMPORARY HEALTH STANDARDS AND ACCESSIBLE MATERIALS (TYPICALLY BIOGENIC MATERIALS) AS THE BASIS, WE END UP WITH SOMETHING ONE MIGHT TERM BIOGENIC MODERNISM. THIS IS THE BASIC CYCLICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARTS EXEMPLIFIED IN HEAT FARMERS AND THIS NEW PARADIGM FOR DERIVING FORM AND VERNACULAR AT LARGE.
HUMANS HAVE A COMPLEX AND SOMETIMES CONTRADICTORY RELATIONSHIP WITH HEAT THAT WILL ALWAYS NEED TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR. HEAT – NOT JUST ENERGY, BUT SPECIFICALLY THERMAL ENERGY – PLAYS A DIRECT ROLE FOR US MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND SOCIALLY. ITS CONTEXT AND INTENSITY DETERMINES WHETHER IT HELPS OR HURTS US. HEAT IS INEVITABLE. OUR BODIES ARE NOT A CLOSED SYSTEM; HUMANS EVOLVED TO DEPEND ON OUTSIDE HEAT SOURCES TO SELF-REGULATE. YET WE CONTINUE TO RESPOND TO THE THREAT OF CLIMATE CHANGE WITH A CONTRARIAN ATTITUDE OF EXCLUSIVELY COOLING. IN AN OVERARCHING CONTEXT, THE DOMINANT DESIGN INTEREST APPEARS TO BE COOLING, BUT COOLING ALONE BETRAYS OUR NATURE AS HEAT-DEPENDENT CREATURES THAT SEEK OUT HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES IN AN OTHERWISE CONTROLLED (COOLED) ENVIRONMENT WITHIN AN OVERHEATED ATMOSPHERE. IF ONE LIVES IN A DESERT CLIMATE YET SPENDS THEIR DAYS INSIDE AN AIR CONDITIONED SPACE, THEY STILL SEEK OUT A HOT SHOWER OVER A COLD ONE, BECAUSE THE HEAT FROM THE HOT WATER WILL RELAX AND CLEANSE MORE EFFECTIVELY.
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IN ORDER FOR US TO ADVANCE, WE NEED TO STOP VILIFYING HEAT AND BEGIN THINKING OF IT MORE AS AN OPPORTUNITY. HEAT IS LIKE A CROP THAT CAN BE HARVESTED. SOME OF IT, WE WILL WANT TO KEEP IN ITS MAIN FORM OF THERMAL ENERGY, AND SOME OF IT – PERHAPS THE MAJORITY OF IT - WE WILL WANT TO TRANSFER AWAY FROM US OR TRANSFORM INTO OTHER USEFUL ENERGY TYPES. YET, HEAT REMAINS THE ENERGETIC FOCAL POINT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE DECIDE TO EXPERIENCE IT DIRECTLY. THRIVING IN THE FUTURE MEANS RECOGNIZING THAT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF COOLING THE PLANET, HEAT REMAINS AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT IN INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY WELLNESS AND THAT THAT WILL NOT CHANGE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THUS, OUR GOAL SHOULD BE TO USE A CONSISTENT SET OF SYSTEMS THAT INTERPLAY TO SIMULTANEOUSLY COOL AND REJUVENATE OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS WITH TRANSFORMED HEAT AND PROVIDE WARM WELLNESS SPACES INDOORS WITH TRANSFERRED HEAT THE GOAL OF THE HEAT FARMERS COMMUNITY IS TO DO EXACTLY THIS. THERE ARE A VARIETY OF WAYS THIS CAN COME TO BE – WITH DIFFERENT INTERPLAYING SYSTEMS THAT IMPLY DIFFERENT CIRCULAR ECONOMIES WHICH GENERATE DIFFERENT MATERIALS FOR BUILDINGS AND LANDSCAPES.
HEAT FARMERS ENVISIONS A NEW RESILIENT FORM OF COMMUNITY, BUT IT DOES MUCH MORE THAN THAT. DEPLOYMENT OF SYSTEM – IN THIS CASE, HEAT AND TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION – SERVES AS A LAUNCHING PAD FOR ARCHITECTURE THAT CONTAINS THE NECESSARY COMPLEXITY TO ADDRESS HUMAN NEEDS INSIDE THE BUILDING WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS OUTSIDE THE BUILDING, WHICH MAY ON THE SURFACE SEEM TO CONTRADICT, BUT IN REALITY CAN BE DELICATELY AND GRACEFULLY MANAGED TOGETHER. HEAT FARMERS FINDS WAYS TO REMAIN TRUE TO HUMAN NATURE WHILE WORKING WITH THE PLANET INSTEAD AGAINST IT. EVEN WHEN IT SEEMS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE. AND IT ATTEMPTS TO DO IT BEAUTIFULLY.
MY PRE-PROJECT RESEARCH LARGELY FOCUSES ON PRE-INDUSTRIAL EVOLVED DEPENDENCY ON OUTSIDE HEAT SOURCES AND HOW HEAT USED TO BE A MOSTLY POSITIVE CATALYST FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITIES. IN JAPANESE ONSEN FOR EXAMPLE, AN INDIVIDUAL SEEKS OUT A HOT WATER SOURCE TO BATHE. BECAUSE THEY NEED TO BATHE, THEIR BODY HAS AN EVOLVED PLEASURE INCENTIVE TO DO SO, AND THEY RELAX WHEN THEY ENTER THE WATER. EVERYONE IN THEIR COMMUNITY ALSO NEEDS TO BATHE. THEY ARRIVE AT THE ONSEN. AS THEY ALL RELAX TOGETHER, SOCIALIZATION COMES MORE NATURALLY. INDIVIDUAL’S NEEDS FOR SOCIALIZATION AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT BECOME REALIZED THROUGH THIS. THUS, THE ONSEN SCULPTS COMMUNITY AS A LOCUS AND AS AN AGENT THAT ENABLES WELLNESS.
THERE ARE SEVERAL EXAMPLES LIKE THIS, BOTH BUILT AND NATURALLY-OCCURRING, THAT ACHIEVE SIMILAR GOALS. I ALSO DISCUSS OTHER FACTORS THAT PLAY INTO WELLNESS, SUCH AS THE SCALE OF A COMMUNITY AND VARIOUS WAYS TO EFFECTIVELY DEAL WITH HEAT AT DIFFERENT BUILDING SCALES THROUGH FORM AND ACCESS TO BIOPHILIA.
AS I BEGIN TO INCORPORATE THE CONTEMPORARY THREAT OF CLIMATE CHANGE, I TEST THE THEORY OF HEAT AS AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT IN WELLNESS-BASED COMMUNITIES ON A SITE IN THE HEART OF MILWAUKEE – THE WALMART PARKING LOT ON CAPITOL DRIVE, AND THE COMMERCIAL LOT ACROSS FROM IT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF CAPITOL DRIVE, COMBINED. I WAS ABLE TO GET REALISTIC CLIMATE DATA FOR THIS SITE AND MAKE MEANINGFUL INFERENCES LEADING UP TO THE YEAR 2075, WHEN ATMOSPHERIC HEAT WAS SURE TO PLAY A DANGEROUS ROLE ON SITE. AT THE SCALE OF THIS SITE, I WANTED TO SEE WHETHER LOOMING CLIMATE DISASTER AND INTENTIONAL INTERIOR HEAT COULD BE RECONCILED WITH AN INTERPLAYING SET OF SYSTEMS THAT COULD BOTH COOL THE OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT WHILE INTRODUCING HEAT IN APPROPRIATE AND CREATIVE SPACES INDOORS. I ALSO WANTED TO EXPERIMENT WITH SOLUTIONS FOR HARVESTING AND REDIRECTING HEAT DIRECTLY FROM THE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE OF PAVED PARKING LOTS, A REALISTIC SCENARIO IN THE FUTURE WHERE PEOPLE MAY MOVE INTO ABANDONED AREAS WHERE THEY INHERIT SIMILAR INFRASTRUCTURE. ALTHOUGH I CHOSE NOT TO LITERALLY AGGREGATE ACROSS THE BOUNDS OF THE ENTIRE SITE, I USED ITS GENERAL SCALE, LOCATION, AND CLIMATE PREDICTIONS AS A BASIS FOR IMAGINING A FUTURISTIC COMMUNITY OF DISPLACED CLIMATE MIGRANTS. AS I MOVED FORWARD, I USED THE GENERAL DIMENSIONS AND FEATURES OF THE SITE TO GAUGE RELATIONSHIPS OF PROPORTIONALITY BETWEEN VARIOUS SYSTEMS, AND NEW JOBS CREATED ON SITE FOR THEIR UPKEEP. I CREATED ELABORATE DIAGRAMS THAT GIVE ME THE BUILDING BLOCKS FROM WHICH TO UNDERSTAND HOW MANY AND HOW LARGE OF VARIOUS SYSTEMS COULD FIT ON SITE, HOW MUCH ENERGY THEY TAKE TO RUN, AND WHAT AND HOW MANY MATERIALS THEY PRODUCE. FOR EXAMPLE, SOLAR COOKERS OF A CERTAIN SIZE IN THE PREDICTED HOT CLIMATE CAN GENERATE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY WITH A THERMOELECTRIC CONVERTER, AND THAT ELECTRICITY CAN POWER CARBON COLLECTORS AND MECHANISMS TO REGENERATE SOIL, BOTH OF WHICH LOWER THE OUTDOOR TEMPERATURE. CAPTURED CO2 CAN BE USED TO PROMOTE GROWTH IN GREENHOUSES THAT GROW BAMBOO AND TIMBER, AND THEN THAT MATERIAL IS USED TO BUILD STRUCTURES ON SITE, WITH THE HEAT FROM THE SOLAR COOKERS HEATING SELECTING INDOOR AREAS. CIRCULAR ECONOMIES LIKE THIS ONE HIGHLIGHT A VIRTUOUS CYCLE WHEREBY HEAT-CENTERED SYSTEMS REDUCE HEAT OUTDOORS AND SELECTIVELY DEPLOY IT INDOORS, TREATING HEAT AS A CROP TO BE HARVESTED.
FROM THESE DIAGRAMS, SEVERAL CIRCULAR ECONOMIES LIKE THE ONE MENTIONED ABOVE BECOME POSSIBLE, EACH WITH SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT RESULTS IN MATERIALS THEY PRODUCE TO BUILD BIOGENIC ARCHITECTURE – THEY INCLUDE VARIOUS DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF RAMMED EARTH, MUD BRICK, BAMBOO, AND TIMBER. THE DIAGRAMS ALSO SHED LIGHT ON VARIOUS DIRECTIONS OF ENERGY FLOW.
SINCE A GIVEN CIRCULAR ECONOMY ALLOWS FOR A CERTAIN SET OF BUILDING MATERIALS, I TESTED VISUAL, FORMAL, AND SPATIAL EFFECTS OF THE CORRESPONDING COMBINATIONS OF MATERIALS. THE MATERIALITY SCHEME THAT PRODUCED THE MOST DESIRED ARCHITECTURAL EFFECTS (THIS WAS OF COURSE SUBJECTIVE) WAS, TO ME, LARCH WOOD AND BAMBOO. THIS IS HOW I CHOSE TO PRODUCE HUMAN BODY-ORIENTED, HEAT-BASED DETAIL CONDITIONS WITH THESE MATERIALS.
AT THE DETAIL LEVEL, I CONSIDERED TRAITS SUCH AS CONDUCTION, CONVECTION, RADIATION, MOISTURE RETENTION, AND SURFACE FORM. THE OPPORTUNITY OF HEAT BECOMES REALIZED IN A VARIETY OF WAYS THROUGH CONFIGURATIONS OF TIMBER AND BAMBOO IN FRAMING, LEVEL CHANGES, CLADDING, AND PARTITION. THE FRAMING OFTEN DEALS WITH GENERATING HEAT, SUCH AS WITH THE HOT COMPOST WALL OR FLOOR OR WIND FRICTION WALL OR FLOOR. CLADDING AND PARTITION MORE OFTEN DEAL WITH RETAINING OR DEFLECTING HEAT. PUT TOGETHER, THESE CONDITIONS CAN SATISFY THE PROGRAMMATIC NEEDS OF A COMMUNITY IN DIFFERENT BUILDING TYPES.
I CHOSE TO DEPLOY THE HEAT CONDITIONS REALIZED AT THE DETAIL LEVEL IN THREE SIMPLE BUILDING TYPES -SMALL, MEDIUM, AND LARGE. EACH CAN SATISFY A DIVERSE PROGRAM, WITH PERMANENT HEAT ENVIRONMENT FIXTURES MOSTLY AROUND THE BUILDING’S PERIMETER AND A RELATIVELY OPEN FLOOR PLAN TOWARD THE CENTER. THE COMMUNITY OF THE HEAT FARMERS AIMS TO PROVIDE A GLIMPSE INTO THE ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION WE CAN ACHIEVE WHEN WE STOP ANTAGONIZING HEAT AND START APPRECIATING ITS COMPLEXITY. CHANGING OUR MINDSET CAN ENSURE A BRIGHT FUTURE.
I WANT TO THANK MY AMAZING, SUPPORTIVE THESIS COMMITTEE FOR ALL OF THE TIME, SUPPORT, AND ENCOURAGEMENT THEY PROVIDED ME THROUGHOUT THIS RESEARCH AND PROJECT! I COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS WITHOUT THEM.
THEORY & RESEARCH;
HEAT’S TIES TO WELLNESS & COMMUNITY BUILDING;
PRECEDENTS, THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS IN BIOMIMETICS, HEAT MODALITIES (PREVIEW);
TYPE, SCALE, & SYSTEMS ANALYSIS (PREVIEW);
SITE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION (PREVIEW); 5 6 18 19 20
A MODEL FOR INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS THROUGH HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES THAT SCULPTS AND SUSTAINS COMMUNITIES IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
WORKING DEFINITION OF WELLNESS WELLNESS REFERS TO A HOLISTIC STANDARD OF MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PHYSICAL HEALTH THAT ALLOWS THE HUMAN BODY TO SELF-SUSTAIN WHILE RETAINING ITS BASIC FUNCTIONS. IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE, “BASIC FUNCTIONS” CAN BE AS SIMPLE AS “TO MOVE AND BE OKAY”1. IN SOME CONTEXTS, WELLNESS IS USED SYNONYMOUSLY WITH WELLBEING AND PERTAINS TO MEETING THE ABOVE CRITERIA THROUGH A FRAMEWORK OF RESILIENCE, MEASURED AS THE ABILITY OF AN ORGANISM TO PERSIST WHEN FACED WITH VARIABLE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES WHICH CHALLENGE OUR EVOLVED REGULATION MECHANISMS2. WHERE HUMANS ARE SOCIAL ANIMALS AND RELY ON INTERACTION WITH OTHER HUMANS TO MEET THESE NEEDS, INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY WELLNESS ARE INTERCONNECTED3. THE ACTUALIZATION OF WELLNESS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES LARGELY DEPENDS ON THE ACTUALIZATION OF RESOURCES FROM ANY GIVEN NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AROUND THE WORLD4. THIS ACTUALIZATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES INVOLVES A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF:
-NUTRIENT INTAKE THROUGH BOTH FOOD AND THE ATMOSPHERE5 -CLIMATE/SENSORY VARIATION6
-RESOURCES FOR SHELTER THAT PROTECT FROM CLIMATE DISCOMFORT/INCOMPATIBILITY7 , AND -GEOGRAPHICALLY-SUPPORTED OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE WITH OTHER HUMANS8
FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF TIME HUMANS HAVE EXISTED, THEY HAVE LIVED IN SMALL NOMADIC HUNTING AND GATHERING GROUPS. FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW, OUR WELLNESS NEEDS ARE STILL LARGELY ADAPTED TO ASPECTS OF THAT LIFESTYLE9. PRIOR TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, AGRARIANISM, TRADE, OR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT BEYOND SIMPLE HAND TOOLS, EVERY VARIANT OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENT ON EARTH THAT PEOPLE FOUND THEMSELVES IN REQUIRED A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF THESE RESOURCES TO SATISFY THE SAME MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PHYSICAL NEEDS PRESENT ACROSS THE ENTIRE HUMAN SPECIES, AS THEY HAD EVOLVED BEFORE HUMANS MIGRATED AND DISPERSED ACROSS THE PLANET. PEOPLE LIVING IN EACH ENVIRONMENT DEPLOYED THEIR RESPECTIVE RESOURCES AS SUCH, IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE THEIR POTENTIAL FOR WELLNESS, WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE CONSCIOUSLY AWARE OF IT. REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE CAN CLAIM FROM THEORIES ON HOW EARLY HUMANS LIVED AND EVOLVED, WE CAN SURMISE TODAY THAT ASIDE FROM INTERNAL POPULATION VARIATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS, HUMANS NEEDS REGARDING WELLNESS TODAY ARE RELATIVELY CONSISTENT ACROSS ALL ENVIRONMENTS ON THE PLANET.
FOUR ENVIRONMENTAL INGREDIENTS FOR INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS
FOUR ENVIRONMENTAL INGREDIENTS FOR INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS
MINERAL INTAKE THROUGH MINERAL-BASED EATING AND DRINKING UTENSILS, SUCH AS CLAY AND COPPER VESSELS, & CAST IRON PANS
RESOURCES FOR SHELTER THAT PROTECT FROM CLIMATE DISCOMFORT / INCOMPATIBILITY
RESOURCES FOR SHELTER THAT PROTECT FROM CLIMATE DISCOMFORT/ INCOMPATIBILITY
GEOGRAPHICALLY-SUPPORTED OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE WITH OTHER HUMANS
POST-INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES FOR SHELTER
PRE-INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES FOR SHELTER
MINERAL INTAKE THROUGH THE AIR
MINERAL INTAKE THROUGH SUNLIGHT
NUTRIENT INTAKE THROUGH BOTH FOOD AND THE ATMOSPHERE
INSTANT CLIMATE/ TEMPERATURE VARIATION (NOT SEASONAL)
1PODEBRADSKY, J. (2008). WELLNESS V ČR. EPO CONSULT, S.R.O., 7. 2VILLANUEVA, CMS. “TRANSFORMATIONS OF URBAN SPACE IN COMMUNITY AND PEDESTRIAN WELLBEING.” IOP CONFERENCE SERIES. MATERIALS SCIENCE AND 3ENGINEERING 636, NO. 1 (2019): 12002–. THE COOPERATIVE HUMAN. NAT HUM BEHAV 2, 427–428 (2018). HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1038/S41562-018-0389-1 4HASTY, J., G. LEWIS, D., & M. SNIPES, M. (2022). FOOD AS A MATERIAL ARTIFACT. INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY, 1, 14.1.
5HASTY, J., G. LEWIS, D., & M. SNIPES, M. (2022). FOOD AS A MATERIAL ARTIFACT, 14.1. 6HESCHONG, LISA. THERMAL DELIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE / LISA HESCHONG. CAMBRIDGE, MASS: MIT PRESS, 1979. 7HESCHONG, LISA. THERMAL DELIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE, 1979. 8VILLANUEVA, CMS. “TRANSFORMATIONS OF URBAN SPACE IN COMMUNITY AND PEDESTRIAN WELLBEING.” (2019) 9WRANGHAM, RICHARD W. CATCHING FIRE : HOW COOKING MADE US HUMAN / RICHARD WRANGHAM. NEW YORK: BASIC BOOKS, 2009.
FIGURE 1.1
VITAMIN & MINERAL INTAKE THROUGH FOOD
WELLNESS AS RESILIENCE
THE GOAL OF LIVING THE BEST LIFE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NATURAL HUMAN LIFESPAN
THE GOAL OF LIVING THE BEST LIFE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NATURAL
HUMAN LIFESPAN
IMMORTALITY
NOT IMMORTALITY
CLIMATIC CHANGES DISEASE
CENTERED; WELL
DURING MUCH OF THIS TIME, A GOAL FOR NEW CHEMICAL AND PROCEDURAL INTERVENTIONS WASN’T TO ACTUALIZE THE NATURAL HUMAN LIFESPAN, BUT RATHER TO PUSH FOR NEW HUMAN CAPABILITIES THAT SIMPLY BETRAY THE ENTROPY OF THE HUMAN BODY. OFTEN, MODERN MEDICINE PRIOR TO THE 1960S EQUATED IMPROVEMENTS IN WELLNESS AS EBBING CLOSER TO IMMORTALITY12.
BACKGROUND OF WELLNESS THEORIES, PERSONAL BACKGROUND/BIASES, EPISTEMOLOGY IT IS WORTHWHILE TO NOTE OTHER THEMES AND MEANINGS OF WELLNESS THAT I AM NOT INCLUDING HERE IN MY WORKING DEFINITION, AND WHY I AM CHOOSING NOT TO. “WESTERN MEDICINE,” SOMETIMES KNOWN AS “BIOMEDICINE, ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE OR MODERN HEALTH CARE” ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS HUMAN HEALTH BY INTRODUCING WHATEVER CHEMICALS AND PROCEDURES NECESSARY TO ALLOW THE HUMAN BODY TO SELF-SUSTAIN WHILE RETAINING ITS BASIC FUNCTIONS, EVEN IF THESE TECHNIQUES ARE NOT PRESENT IN NATURE10. THROUGH THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES UNTIL THE 1960S, THE GOAL OF MODERN MEDICINE WAS NOT NECESSARILY TO PROMOTE A HIGH-QUALITY LIFE WITH A NATURAL HUMAN LIFE SPAN FOR THE SAKE OF INDIVIDUAL HAPPINESS, BUT RATHER TO CREATE A FULL HEALTH INDUSTRY THAT IMPROVED FACTORY WORKER PRODUCTIVITY AND CREATED NEW JOBS IN A NEW HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY. WESTERN MEDICINE ALSO OFTEN TOOK POWER OVER WELLNESS OUT OF THE HANDS OF INDIGENOUS FEMALE HEALERS AND MIDWIVES WHEN IT CREATED AN INDUSTRY OF MALE-ONLY CERTIFIED DOCTORS11. DURING MUCH OF THIS TIME, A GOAL FOR NEW CHEMICAL AND PROCEDURAL INTERVENTIONS WASN’T TO ACTUALIZE THE NATURAL HUMAN LIFESPAN, BUT RATHER TO PUSH FOR NEW HUMAN CAPABILITIES THAT SIMPLY BETRAY THE ENTROPY OF THE HUMAN BODY. OFTEN, MODERN MEDICINE PRIOR TO THE 1960S EQUATED IMPROVEMENTS IN WELLNESS AS EBBING CLOSER TO IMMORTALITY12. THE DISCIPLINE SAW CURES FOR ILLNESSES NOT IN PREVENTATIVE LIFESTYLES, BUT IN CHEMISTRY ALONE. THIS GREATLY BACKFIRED DURING THE 1960S, WHEN THE ATTEMPT TO SOLVE EVERY ILLNESS WITH A NEW CHEMICAL COMPOUND CAUSES HUMAN BODIES TO PRODUCE RESISTANT MICROORGANISMS AND REJECT TREATMENTS FASTER THAN NEW ONES COULD BE CREATED13. THE NOTION OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AS A FORM OF PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE TO PROMOTE WELLNESS HAD TO BE REINTRODUCED TO THE WESTERN PUBLIC.
10WELLNESS: ITS ORIGINS, THEORIES AND CURRENT APPLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. (2010). FACULTY OF SPORTS STUDIES, MASARYK UNIVERSITY, 3.
11RISKA, ELIANNE., AND KATARINA. WEGAR. GENDER, WORK, AND MEDICINE : WOMEN AND THE MEDICAL DIVISION OF LABOUR / EDITED BY ELIANNE RISKA AND KATARINA WEGER. LONDON ;: SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 1993.
12POST, STEPHEN G., AND ROBERT H. BINSTOCK. THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH : CULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON A BIOMEDICAL GOAL. CARY: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, INCORPORATED, 2004.
13STARA & CHARVAT, WELLNESS: IT’S ORIGINS AND THEORIES (2010). FACULTY OF SPORTS STUDIES, MASARYK UNIVERSITY, 3
FIGURE 1.2
BODY UNDERGOES NATURAL ENTROPY AND DIES 120 YEARS
WELLNESS CHALLENGES
IT’S ENVIRONMENT, WITHSTANDS ITS SHAPE THROUGH RESILIENCY
MENTAL
PROBLEM
SHARED HOT/COLD EXPERIENCES SUPPORT GROUPS
SHARED FOOD GATHERING AND PREPARATIONS
AND YET, NONE OF THESE MODERN WESTERN INFLUENCERS PINPOINTED A CONNECTION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY WELLNESS; RECOGNITION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN WELLNESS ONLY APPLIED TO THE INDIVIDUAL. AS I WILL ELABORATE FURTHER IN 3 – HEAT DEPLOYMENT FOR COMMUNITYBUILDING BASED ON INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS (GENERAL OVERVIEW), MANY CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT THAT PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS HAVE A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND COMMUNITY WELLNESS. HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES SUCH AS JAPANESE ONSEN CREATED ENVIRONMENTS FOR SOCIAL INTERACTION WHILE ATTENDING TO PHYSICAL NEEDS, AND SOCIAL INTERACTION WAS VERY MUCH RECOGNIZED AS A NEED ITSELF, WHICH THEN REENFORCED THE BEHAVIORS THAT PROMOTED PHYSICAL NEEDS IN THESE HEATED SPACES, WHICH RESULTED IN SCULPTING COMMUNITIES AROUND THESE SPACES.19 I BELIEVE THAT HEAT AS A CATALYST FOR COMMUNITY AS EVIDENCED IN INDIGENOUS WELLNESS INFRASTRUCTURE – AS WELL AS SOCIAL INTERACTION WITHIN A COMMUNITY IN GENERAL – IS A PIECE OF BROADER WELLNESS THAT WESTERN WELLNESS PROMOTERS LARGELY MISSED. OUR HISTORY AS A SPECIES SUGGESTS THAT COMMUNITY-BUILDING DESERVES A PLACE IN THE BROADER APPLICATION OF HEAT-BASED WELLNESS IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT.
19SERBULEA, MIHAELA, AND UNNIKRISHNAN PAYYAPPALLIMANA. “ONSEN (HOT SPRINGS) IN JAPAN—TRANSFORMING TERRAIN INTO HEALING LANDSCAPES.” HEALTH & PLACE 18, NO. 6 (2012): 1366–1373.
SHARED DIRECT SKIN CONTACT WITH NUTRIENTS
IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT MY PERSONAL BACKGROUND PLAYS A ROLE IN MY EPISTEMOLOGICAL FORMULATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEAT, WELLNESS, AND COMMUNITY-BUILDING. I FIRST BEGAN TO EXPLORE THE IDEA THAT CULTURALLY-DRIVEN HEATING SYSTEMS COULD SCULPT AN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY AS A STUDIO PROJECT. THE ASSIGNMENT WAS TO DESIGN A HOUSE THEMED AROUND A CERTAIN DOMESTIC LABOR. I GREW UP IN A HASIDIC JEWISH BACKGROUND IN WHICH MY ALL-GIRLS SCHOOL TAUGHT A MODEL OF HOME ECONOMICS CONSISTENTLY THROUGH THE 11TH GRADE. AS MY DOMESTIC LABOR TOPIC, I CHOSE THE LAWS OF RETURNING FOOD TO A FIRE ON THE JEWISH SABBATH (HILCHOS HACHZARA) BECAUSE IT IS PART OF THE CULTURAL FRAMEWORK THROUGH WHICH I CONCEPTUALIZE DOMESTIC LABOR IN GENERAL. I DO NOT BY HABIT CONCEPTUALIZE DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES IN SECULAR TERMS, BUT RATHER HAVE TRAINED MYSELF TO DO THIS IN ACADEMIC DISCOURSE. ON THE ONE HAND, THIS CAN MAKE ME MORE SENSITIVE TO DIFFERENT CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL INTERPRETATIONS OF COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES THAT OCCUR IN, SAY, JAPANESE ONSEN WITH A DESIRE TO HONOR THOSE INTERPRETATIONS. ON THE OTHER HAND, I DO ENTER THIS RESEARCH WITH YEARS OF CULTURALLY-ENTRENCHED EXPERIENCE OF MY OWN THAT MAY LEAD ME TO EXPECT TO FIND SIMILAR COMMUNITY-BUILDING PARALLELS IN DIFFERENT CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES. ANOTHER CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO THIS BIAS IS THE BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE I HOLD IN SOCIOLOGY FOLLOWED BY THREE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN LOCAL DISASTER RESPONSE IN A LARGE CITY, THROUGH WHICH I ENCOUNTERED MANY COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS AND TRIED TO MEET THEM IN A COLLABORATIVE, COMMUNITY-BASED MANNER. I KNOW HOW LITTLE I KNOW ABOUT THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF OTHER CULTURES AS THEY PERTAIN TO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, AND YET – I FULLY BELIEVE IN THE CAPACITY OF DESIGN TO HEAL AND TO FLOURISH COMMUNITIES BASED ON UNIVERSAL HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS. AS I LEAN INTO THE HUMANISTIC ASPECT OF THE DESIGN APPLICATION OF HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES, I HOPE NOT TO LOSE CONTACT WITH QUANTITATIVE, THEORETICAL SYSTEM DETAILS AND ANALYSIS, WHICH OTHERS CAN HOPEFULLY APPLY TO THEIR OWN WORK IN THE FUTURE.
FIGURE 1.5
HEAT DEPLOYMENT FOR COMMUNITY-BUILDING BASED ON INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS (GENERAL OVERVIEW) THE DEPLOYMENT OF CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS, RADIANT ATMOSPHERES, AND CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERES AS TOOLS FOR WELLNESS CAN BE INSTRUMENTAL IN COMMUNITY BUILDING. FIRST, I WILL EXAMINE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN NUTRITION, HEAT, AND WELLNESS. THEN, ITS RELATION TO TEMPERATURE AND SENSORY VARIATION FOR WELLNESS – AND FINALLY – GEOGRAPHICALLY-SUPPORTED AND HUMAN-BUILT OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE WITH OTHER HUMANS THROUGH HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES. THE GOAL OF THIS IS TO BOLSTER THE UNDERSTANDING OF WELLNESS THROUGH TANGIBLE EXAMPLES AS IT PERTAINS TO INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES, AND COMMUNITY-BUILDING.
WE HAVE THE UNDERSTANDING THAT EACH NATURAL ENVIRONMENT DURING THE HOLOCENE THAT HUMANS FOUND THEMSELVES IN CONTAINED THE POTENTIAL TO FULFILL THEIR UNIVERSAL WELLNESS NEEDS AS OUTLINED ABOVE.20 A PIECE OF THIS KNOWLEDGE IS FOUND IN THE TRADITIONAL COLLECTIVES OF FOOD THAT EACH INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ATE, KNOWN AS CUISINE. CUISINE REFERS TO THE COMPLETE DIET OF FOODS TAKEN TOGETHER THAT A GIVEN PEOPLE CONSUMED LOCAL TO THEIR REGION, PRIOR TO AGRARIANISM AND INDUSTRIALIZATION. IT DIFFERS FROM THE COLLOQUIAL UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURAL CUISINE THAT IS WIDELY USED TODAY. ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS OF ANCIENT NOMADIC PEOPLES SUGGEST THAT THEY HAD A BROADER, MORE NUTRITIOUS DIET THAN WHAT WE ENCOUNTER CONTEMPORARILY.21 THUS, CUISINE IS UNDERSTOOD TO BE AN ACTUALIZATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES FOR WELLNESS BECAUSE EACH VARIANT OF CUISINE FOUND AROUND THE WORLD PROVIDED THE “OPTIMAL” NUTRITION FOR PEOPLE IN ITS OWN WAY. EACH VARIANT HAD CAREFULLY BALANCED RATIOS OF DIFFERENT NUTRIENTS FROM WHATEVER PLANTS AND ANIMALS THAT WERE AVAILABLE IN A GIVEN AREA, YET EACH RATIO, AMOUNT, AND SOURCE AS A TOTAL SUM PROVIDED THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF NUTRITION FOR A HUMAN THAT COULD HAVE BEEN FOUND ANYWHERE. AND ALTHOUGH SOME SMALL GENETIC VARIATIONS HAVE OCCURRED THAT ALTER HUMAN METABOLISM BY POPULATION AFTER PEOPLE MIGRATED OUT OF AFRICA (FOR EXAMPLE: AN ACTIVATION/DEACTIVATION OF THE GENES CONTROLLING LACTOSE DIGESTION SO THAT SOME POPULATIONS COULD RETAIN NUTRIENTS FROM DAIRY CONSUMPTION)22, BY AND LARGE ALL HUMANS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE THE SAME TOTAL NUTRITIONAL NEEDS. TO FURTHER THIS, WE SEE TODAY A CLEAR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMANS AND OTHER PRIMATES’ ABILITY TO DIGEST RAW FOODS. WHEN HUMANS GAINED THE ABILITY TO USE TOOLS, THEY DISCOVERED THE HEARTH’S POTENTIAL FOR COOKING FOOD.23 COOKED FOOD IS EASIER TO DIGEST – NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE OF ITS HEAT CONTENT – BUT BECAUSE THE COOKING PROCESS BREAKS DOWN PROTEINS THAT OUR BODY WOULD HAVE TO EXPEND ADDITIONAL ENERGY BREAKING DOWN IN RAW FOODS. THE HEAT CONTENT OF FRESHLY COOKED FOOD ALSO ALLOWS US TO SPEND LESS METABOLIC ENERGY REGULATING OUR BODY TEMPERATURE, SINCE WE CAN USE THE HEAT INTAKE AS A TOOL FOR THIS.24 BECAUSE COOKED FOOD MADE OUR LIVES EASIER, OUR BODIES CAME TO DEPEND ON IT – WE NO LONGER NEEDED TO METABOLIZE RAW MEAT AND HAD ACCESS TO OTHER HEATING AIDS IN COLD WEATHER, AND SO WE LOST THE ABILITY TO DO THOSE THINGS IN AN INBORN WAY. ESSENTIALLY, WE EVOLVED A DEPENDENCE ON FOOD CATALYZED THROUGH HEAT, AND BY EXTENSION: WE EVOLVED A DEPENDENCE ON OUTSIDE HEAT SOURCES IN GENERAL FOR SELF-REGULATION, TO MAINTAIN BOTH BODY TEMPERATURE AND NUTRIENT LEVELS, BEYOND THAT OF OTHER MAMMALS, INCLUDING OTHER PRIMATES.
FOOD TEMPERATURE AS EVIDENCE OF EVOLVED HUMAN HEAT DEPENDENCY
RAW FOOD HAS A HIGHER NUTRIENT CONTENT
RAW FOOD HAS A HIGHER NUTRIENT CONTENT
WE METABOLIZE COOKED FOOD MORE EFFICIENTLY BECAUSE COOKING PARTIALLY BREAKS DOWN PROTEINS SO OUR BODY HAS TO DO LESS METABOLIC WORK.
WE METABOLIZE COOKED FOOD MORE EFFICIENTLY BECAUSE COOKING PARTIALLY BREAKS DOWN PROTEINS SO OUR BODY HAS TO DO LESS METABOLIC WORK
THE INCREASED METABOLIC EFFICIENCY WE GAINED BY EATING COOKED FOOD MEANT OUR METABOLISMS DID NOT NEED TO BE AS POWERFUL AS THEY WERE WHEN WE ONLY ATE RAW FOOD
THE INCREASED METABOLIC EFFICIENCY WE GAINED BY EATING COOKED FOOD MEANT OUR METABOLISMS DID NOT NEED TO BE AS POWERFUL AS THEY WERE WHEN WE ONLY ATE RAW FOOD.
THUS, OUR BODIES STARTED TO PRODUCE LESS INTERNAL HEAT DUE TO A LOWERED METABOLIC RATE
THUS, OUR BODIES STARTED TO PRODUCE LESS INTERNAL HEAT DUE TO A LOWERED METABOLIC RATE.
THE ADDED HEAT CONTENT FROM FRESHLY COOKED FOOD ALONG WITH ITS EASIER DIGESTION FURTHER ADDED TO ITS HEAT-SEEKING ELEMENT SINCE OUR METABOLISM NEEDED THE ADDITIONAL HEAT AS WELL TO SELF-REGULATE.
THE ADDED HEAT CONTENT FROM FRESHLY COOKED FOOD ALONG WITH ITS EASIER DIGESTION FURTHER ADDED TO ITS HEAT-SEEKING ELEMENT SINCE OUR METABOLISM NEEDED THE ADDITIONAL HEAT AS WELL TO SELF-REGULATE
COOKED FOOD SPURRED A HUMAN DEPENDENCY ON OUTSIDE HEAT SOURCES TO SELF-REGULATE THE BODY’S MANY SYSTEMS
COOKED FOOD SPURRED A HUMAN DEPENDENCY ON OUTSIDE HEAT SOURCES TO SELF-REGULATE THE BODY’S MANY SYSTEMS.
WE ARE DEPENDENT ON OUTSIDE HEAT SOURCES FOR OUR WELLNESS
WE ARE DEPENDENT ON OUTSIDE HEAT SOURCES FOR OUR WELLNESS.
METABOLIC STRENGTH NEEDED TO DIGEST AND METABOLIZE NUTRIENTS
NUTRIENT DENSITY OF FOOD
NUTRIENT ABSORPTION RATE OF BODY
METABOLIC ABILITY TO PRODUCE BODY HEAT INTERNALLY VIA DEPENDENCY ON FOOD TYPE
20WRANGHAM, RICHARD W. CATCHING FIRE, NEW YORK: BASIC BOOKS, 2009. 21GREAVES, RUSSELL D., AND KAREN L. KRAMER. “HUNTER–GATHERER USE OF WILD PLANTS AND DOMESTICATES: ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR MIXED ECONOMIES BEFORE AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION.” JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 41 (2014): 263–271.
22HOLDEN, CLARE, AND RUTH MACE. “PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF LACTOSE DIGESTION IN ADULTS.” HUMAN BIOLOGY 81, NO. 5/6 (2009): 597–619.
23WRANGHAM, RICHARD W. CATCHING FIRE, NEW YORK: BASIC BOOKS, 2009. 24BORNHORST, GAIL M, MAXINE J ROMAN, SHANE M RUTHERFURD, BETTY J BURRI, PAUL J MOUGHAN, AND R. PAUL SINGH. “GASTRIC DIGESTION OF RAW AND ROASTED ALMONDS IN VIVO.” JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE 78, NO. 11 (2013): H1807–H1813.
FIGURE 1.6
ESSENTIALLY, WE EVOLVED A DEPENDENCE ON FOOD CATALYZED THROUGH HEAT, AND BY EXTENSION: WE EVOLVED A DEPENDENCE ON OUTSIDE HEAT SOURCES IN GENERAL FOR SELF-REGULATION, TO MAINTAIN BOTH BODY TEMPERATURE AND NUTRIENT LEVELS, BEYOND THAT OF OTHER MAMMALS, INCLUDING OTHER PRIMATES.
AYURVEDIC OUTLOOK POSITS HOT FOOD AS CONTAINING MORE ENERGY/STIMULUS VIA ITS HEAT CONTENT, AND COLD FOOD CONTAINING LESS VIA ITS HEAT CONTENT
AYURVEDIC OUTLOOK POSITS HOT FOOD AS CONTAINING MORE ENERGY/STIMULUS VIA ITS HEAT CONTENT, AND COLD FOOD CONTAINING LESS VIA ITS HEAT CONTENT
HEAT AS A THERAPEUTIC ELEMENT IN FOOD
HEAT AS A THERAPEUTIC ELEMENT IN FOOD
EMOTIONALLY LOFTY, UNGROUNDED MIND AND BODY ARE SENSORY-SEEKING, SENSORY UNDERSTIMULATED, CHAOTIC, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IS IMBALANCED
EMOTIONALLY LOFTY, UNGROUNDED, MIND AND BODY ARE SENSORY-SEEKING, SENSORY UNDERSTIMULATED, CHAOTIC,CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IS IMBALANCED
ALTHOUGH I HAVE PRESENTED ONE THEORETICAL EVOLUTIONARY STREAM OF THOUGHT AS TO HOW WE MAY HAVE BECOME HEAT-DEPENDENT, WE NONETHELESS SEE IT TODAY, EVIDENCED IN OUR POSITIVE BIOFEEDBACK LOOPS REGARDING EXPOSURE TO HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT OUR EVER-PRESENT MODERN HEAT DEPENDENCE HAS ALSO BEEN PARTIALLY CAUSED BY OTHER FACTORS, SUCH AS A DECREASE IN TEMPERATURE RESILIENCE COUPLED WITH WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS IN RESPONSE TO YEARS OF EXPOSURE TO TEMPERATURE-CONSTANT ASHRAE STANDARDS FOR HVAC SYSTEMS.25 HARNESSING HEAT BEYOND SIMPLE WEATHER BARRIERS, REGARDLESS OF THE COCKTAIL OF CAUSES FOR OUR CURRENT HEATDEPENDENCE, BECAME ANOTHER ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT FOR WELLNESS. THIS BECOMES EVEN MORE APPARENT WHEN LOOKING AT ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WELLNESS THROUGH HEAT CAPACITY OF FOOD. ONE ANCIENT WELLNESS SYSTEM THAT IS STILL REVERED TODAY IS AYURVEDIC MEDICINE. AYURVEDIC MEDICINE CLASSIFIES THREE MAIN BODY TYPES IN TERMS OF BOTH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CHARACTERISTICS, OR TEMPERAMENT.26 IN AYURVEDIC MEDICINE, AMONG MANY OTHER FACTORS, THE TEMPERATURE OF FOOD AFFECTS THE BALANCE OF OUR NATURAL PHYSIOLOGICAL TEMPERAMENT. HOT AND COLD FOODS ARE VIEWED AS DIRECTLY TRANSMITTING THE AMOUNT OF HEAT ENERGY THEY CONTAIN TO THE HUMAN BODY, PROMOTING CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS WHILE DISCOURAGING OTHERS.
BALANCED INDIVIDUAL, EMOTIONALLY AND SENSORILY, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IS STABLE
BALANCED INDIVIDUAL, EMOTIONALLY ANS SENSORILY, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IS STABLE
EMOTIONALLY WITHDRAWN, LANGUID,MELANCHOLIC, OVERSTIMULATED,SHUT-DOWN, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IS IMBALANCED
EMOTIONALLY WITHDRAWN, LANGUID, MELANCHOLIC, OVERSTIMULATED, SHUT-DOWN, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IS IMBALANCED
FIGURE 1.7
IN A LITERAL SENSE, AYURVEDIC MEDICINE RECOGNIZES THAT HOT FOODS CONTAIN A GREATER AMOUNT OF POTENTIAL KINETIC/HEAT ENERGY THAN COLD FOODS. YET, ITS PROMOTION IS NOT AS STRAIGHTFORWARD AS PEOPLE WITH CALMER TEMPERAMENTS BENEFITING FROM HOT FOOD, AND ENERGETIC PEOPLE BENEFITTING FROM COLD FOOD – THE PROCESS IS MUCH DEEPER. POTENTIAL ENERGY IN FOOD IS ALSO SEEN AS A “GROUNDING” ELEMENT, SIMILAR TO MODERN THERAPEUTIC NOTIONS OF SENSORY STIMULATION THAT “RESET” THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF AN OVERWHELMED INDIVIDUAL THROUGH DEEP PRESSURE RATHER THAN LIGHT TOUCH.27 ACCORDING TO AYURVEDIC MEDICINE, THERE ARE SOME CASES WHEN A “FIERY” INDIVIDUAL STRUGGLING TO GAIN CONTROL OVER EXCESS THOUGHTS, ENERGY, OR LOFTY IDEAS CAN BENEFIT FROM THE STIMULATION OF HOT FOOD AS A TYPE OF NERVOUS SYSTEM RESET; THE HEAT SERVING AS BENEFICIAL STIMULATION, AND THE FURTHER-BROKEN-DOWN NUTRIENTS (WHEN COMPARED TO RAW FOOD) AS SIGNALS TO THE BODY TO SLOW DOWN AND PROCESS INFORMATION ON A SIMPLER LEVEL.28 LIKEWISE, A PERSON WITH “SEDENTARY” CHARACTERISTICS CAN SOMETIMES BENEFIT FROM CONSUMING COLD FOODS, WHICH FORCE THE BODY TO METABOLIZE ON A HIGHER LEVEL, ENCOURAGING GREATER LEVELS OF INTERNAL STIMULATION FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO MAY BE LACKING IT. COLD FOODS FORCE THE BODY TO WORK HARDER TO SELFREGULATE, WHICH CAN BE BENEFICIAL FOR SOMEONE WHO IS UNDER-STIMULATED. AYURVEDIC MEDICINE RECOGNIZES OUR FOOD AS A FORM OF BOTH STORED (NUTRIENT) ENERGY INTAKE AND ACTIVE (HEAT) ENERGY INTAKE, RENDERING HEAT FULLY INTEGRATED INTO THE EQUATION OF OUR WELLNESS.
25BANHAM, REYNER. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE WELL-TEMPERED ENVIRONMENT / REYNER BANHAM. CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1969.
26AYURVEDIC MEDICINE : AN INTRODUCTION. UPDATED JULY 2009. BETHESDA, MD: U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, 2009.
27LEE, SEOYOUNG, HEEYOUNG MOON, YEONHEE RYU, IN-SEON LEE, AND YOUNBYOUNG CHAE. “SENSORY AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO DEEP PRESSURE STIMULATION AT MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINTS: A PILOT STUDY.” FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE 17 (2023): 1197302–1197302.
28TELLES, SHIRLEY, SHIVANGI PATHAK, ANKUR KUMAR, PRABHAT MISHRA, AND ACHARYA BALKRISHNA. “AYURVEDIC DOSHAS AS PREDICTORS OF SLEEP QUALITY.” MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR 21 (2015): 1421–1427.
OUTSIDE OF THE SYMBIOSIS OF NUTRITION AND HEAT IN WELLNESS, WE CAN SEE PARALLELS TO AYURVEDIC MEDICINE’S TAKE ON SENSORY STIMULATION IN BUILDING SYSTEMS. IN LISA HESCHONG’S BOOK THERMAL DELIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE, SHE SUGGESTS THAN PRE-MODERN PASSIVE HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS IN BUILDINGS (AS WELL AS THEIR NATURAL SURROUNDINGS) CONTAIN A LEVEL OF TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION THAT WE HAVE LIKELY EVOLVED ALONGSIDE AND ADAPTED TO SO THAT MILD TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION BECAME AN OPTIMAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION FOR US TO THRIVE IN. UNLIKE THE GOAL OF ASHRAE STANDARDS FOR MECHANICAL HVAC SYSTEMS – TO GENERATE A CONSISTENT SO-CALLED “OPTIMAL” TEMPERATURE THROUGHOUT A BUILDING (TYPICALLY ADJUSTED TO MALE METABOLISM)29, HESCHONG ARGUES THAT BECAUSE OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT PRIOR TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION CONTAINED TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION, THE STIMULATION THAT IT PROVIDES US IN ITS ABILITY TO CALL OUR ATTENTION TO NEW DETAILS AT EVERY TRANSITION POINT ENABLES US TO “FEEL ALIVE” BY ACTIVATING ALL OF OUR SENSES; THAT MULTISENSORIAL STIMULATION IS A PIECE OF OUR HOLISTIC WELLNESS. ALTHOUGH SHE DID NOT VERBALIZE IT DIRECTLY, HESCHONG ALLUDES TO PARALLELS FOUND IN BOTH AYURVEDIC AND MODERN MEDICINE THAT EXPLAIN HOW TEMPERATURE VARIANCE REGULATES THE NERVOUS SYSTEM30, AND HOW A REGULATED NERVOUS SYSTEM ALLOWS US TO REACH A MENTAL STATE OF “CALM AND ALERT” SO CLOSELY RELATED TO A FEELING OF “ALIVENESS.”
29BANHAM, REYNER. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE WELL-TEMPERED ENVIRONMENT / REYNER BANHAM. CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1969.
30ALAWI, KHADIJA, AISAH AUBDOOL, LIHUAN LIANG, ELENA WILDE, ABHINAV VEPA, PARASKEVI-MARIA PSEFTELI, SUSAN BRAIN, AND JULIE KEEBLE. “CONTROL OF THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM BY TRPV1 IN THE REGULATION OF BODY TEMPERATURE.” NEUROPEPTIDES (EDINBURGH) 65 (2017): 131–132.
TYPOLOGY OF HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES
THE DEPLOYMENT OF CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS, RADIANT ATMOSPHERES, AND CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERES AS TOOLS FOR WELLNESS CAN BE INSTRUMENTAL IN COMMUNITY BUILDING.
OBJECTS CAN BECOME CONDUCTIVE AFTER BEING RADIATED ONTO VIA A RADIANT OR CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERE; THEY RECEIVE HEAT ENERGY FROM THE AIR AND THEN CONDUCT IT TO DIFFERENT OBJECTS
OBJECTS CAN BECOME CONDUCTIVE AFTER BEING RADIATED ONTO VIA A RADIANT OR CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERE; THEY RECEIVE HEAT ENERGY FROM THE AIR AND THEN CONDUCT IT TO DIFFERENT OBJECTS
CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS
CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS
CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS CAN ALSO CONDUCT HEAT INTO THE AIR, WHICH THEN RADIATES AS A “RADIANT ATMOSPHERE” ONTO THE BODY OR CREATES A CONVECTION CYCLE
CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS CAN ALSO CONDUCT HEAT INTO THE AIR, WHICH THEN RADIATES AS A “RADIANT ATMOSPHERE” ONTO THE BODY OR CREATES A CONVECTION CYCLE
HITS BODY DIRECTLY
HITS BODY DIRECTLY
SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS THAT TRANSMIT HEAT VIA DIRECT CONTACT WITH ANOTHER OBJECT, INCLUDING DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE HUMAN BODY
SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS THAT TRANSMIT HEAT VIA DIRECT CONTACT WITH ANOTHER OBJECT, INCLUDING DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE HUMAN BODY.
GEOGRAPHICAL BUILT
WARM WATER (IF FULLY SUBMERGED, BECOMES CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERE) HOT ROCK
WARM SAND ON A BEACH
OTHER PEOPLE/ANIMALS HOT
RADIANT FLOORS AND WALLS (WHEN YOU TOUCH THEM, NOT JUST SHARE THE SAME AIR SPACE AS THEM)
MUG WHEN FILLED WITH HOT TEA
STREAM OF WATER FROM A SHOWER
1.8
FURTHER, IF WE HAVE TRULY EVOLVED TO RELY ON TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION AS A MEANS TO SELF-REGULATE, IT WOULD EXPLAIN THE CALMING PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT THAT CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS HAVE FOR US. A CONDUCTIVE OBJECT REFERS TO A WARM OR COOL SURFACE THAT CONDUCTS HEAT TO OR AWAY FROM OUR BODIES, RESPECTIVELY, WHEN WE MAKE PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH IT. EXAMPLES OF CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS ARE THE WARM SAND ON A BEACH, THE GRASS ON A SHADY SIDE OF A HILL, HOT PAVEMENT, OR EVEN CULTURE-SPECIFIC BUILT DEPLOYMENTS SUCH AS THE KOREAN ONDOL HEATED FLOOR.31 WE KNOW ANECDOTALLY THAT WARM SURFACES TRIGGER POSITIVE EMOTIONS AND INDUCE RELAXATION FOR US. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE POSITIVE EMOTIONS WE GAIN FROM CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS RELATE DIRECTLY TO THE POSITIVE PHYSICAL SENSATIONS WE GAIN FROM THEM. OUR BRAINS SEND US NEUROCHEMICAL SIGNALS FOR HAPPINESS AS BIOFEEDBACK SO THAT WE ASSOCIATE PLEASURE WITH A BEHAVIOR (ENGAGING WITH THE CONDUCTIVE OBJECT) THAT HELPS US PHYSICALLY REGULATE OUR BODIES. WE HAVE EVOLVED TO TAKE PLEASURE IN BEHAVIORS THAT SERVE OUR WELLNESS THROUGH HEAT.
31SHIN, JUNG-HYE. “KEEPING WARM IN A CHANGING PLACE : SYMBOLISM, TRADITION, AND MODERNITY IN DOMESTIC LIVES ON ONDOL (KOREAN HEATED FLOOR) IN THE 20TH CENTURY / BY JUNG-HYE SHIN.” THESIS (PH. D. IN ARCHITECTURE)--UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN--MILWAUKEE, 2007., 2007.
FIGURE
CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERES ENGAGE WITH CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS AND SOMETIMES RADIANCE IN THE SAME ATMOSPHERIC SPACE; CONVECTION SELDOM
EXISTS IN A VACUUM AND TENDS TO REPRESENT MORE OF A PHASE THAN A COHESIVE “THING” FOR HEAT DEPLOYMENT
CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERES ENGAGE WITH CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS AND SOMETIMES RADIANCE IN THE SAME ATMOSPHERIC SPACE; CONVECTION SELDOM EXISTS IN A VACUUM AND TENDS TO REPRESENT MORE OF A PHASE THAN A COHESIVE “THING” FORHEAT DEPLOYMENT
CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERES
CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERES
LIQUIDS AND GASES THAT MOVE FIELDS OF HEAT WAVES/PARTICLES IN A LOOP BASED ON HEAT’S KINETIC ENERGY: WARM/HIGH ENERGY RISES, COOL/LOW ENERGY FALLS
LIQUIDS AND GASES THAT MOVE FIELDS OF HEAT WAVES/PARTICLES IN A LOOP BASED ON HEAT’S KINETIC ENERGY: WARM/HIGH ENERGY RISES, COOL/LOW ENERGY FALLS
GEOGRAPHICAL BUILT
A RAINFOREST FROM THE FLOOR TO THE CANOPY
WEATHER CYCLES OF EVAPORATION AND RAIN
A MOUNTAIN FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP
FULLY SUBMERGED; “ENCLOSED” IN WATER
CONVECTION OVEN
SAUNA
MAIN CAVITY OF KILN
A HOUSE FROM THE BASEMENT TO THE ATTIC
ONSEN ARE OPEN TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY – PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND FROM MANY DIFFERENT HOUSEHOLDS. WEEKLY, PEOPLE GO THERE TO BATHE AND RELAX. AN INHERENT ASPECT OF ONSEN IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO BOTH OF THESE TASKS SIMULTANEOUSLY – BATHE AND RELAX [THROUGH THE CONDUCTIVE OBJECT OF THE HOT WATER AND THROUGH SOCIALIZATION WITH OTHERS]. WHEN PEOPLE SOAK THEIR FEET TOGETHER WITH FRIENDS IN WARM WATER, THEY RECEIVE “CALM” EMOTIONAL BIOFEEDBACK BECAUSE THE PHYSICAL ACT OF SOAKING IN THE WATER IS GOOD FOR THEIR BODIES’ TEMPERATURE REGULATION AND THE WATER IS A GOOD CATALYST FOR CLEANSING THE SKIN. THE POSITIVE EMOTION THAT THEIR BODY GENERATES FOR THEM MAKES IT EASIER TO SOCIALLY INTERACT WITH OTHERS, AND THERE ARE OPPORTUNE PEOPLE AROUND TO INTERACT WITH BY THE SHEER FACT THAT OTHERS MUST ALSO ROUTINELY BATHE. THE SOCIAL INTERACTION THEY EXPERIENCE REENFORCES THOSE POSITIVE EMOTIONS FROM THE WATER. WHEN PEOPLE CHOOSE TO RETURN TO THE ONSEN TIME AND AGAIN, ONE MUST ASK: ARE THEY GOING FOR THE WELLNESS BENEFITS FROM THE HEATED WATER, THE SOCIALIZATION, OR BOTH? THE TWO ARE SO TIED TOGETHER THAT IT IS UNCLEAR WHICH CAME FIRST. NOT ONLY IS THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF THE CONDUCTIVE OBJECT OF THE ONSEN BOTH PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL – IT IS ALSO SIMULTANEOUSLY INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNAL.35 HERE, THE ENTIRE HOLISTIC MODEL OF WELLNESS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL IS FUSED WITH THAT OF THE COMMUNITY. AND THROUGH THE POSITIVE BIOFEEDBACK WE RECEIVE FROM BEHAVIORS SUCH AS VISITING ONSEN WHICH PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS, THE ONSEN – AS A CONDUCTIVE OBJECT - BECOMES A TOOL FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING AND SUSTAINING.
32KRAUS, ALLAN D., ABDUL AZIZ, AND JAMES R. WELTY. INTRODUCTION TO THERMAL AND FLUID ENGINEERING / BY ALLAN D. KRAUS, JAMES R. WELTY AND ABDUL AZIZ. FIRST EDITION. BOCA RATON, FL: CRC PRESS, AN IMPRINT OF TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, 2011.
33HESCHONG, LISA. THERMAL DELIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE, 1979. 34PILCH, WANDA, MARTA SZAREK, CZERWI SKA-LEDWIG OLGA, PIOTROWSKA ANNA, MAŁGORZATA YCHOWSKA, SADOWSKA-KREPA EWA, ŠTEFÁNIA ANDRAŠČÍKOVÁ, AND TOMASZ PAŁKA. “THE EFFECTS OF A SINGLE AND A SERIES OF FINNISH SAUNA SESSIONS ON THE IMMUNE RESPONSE AND HSP-70 LEVELS IN TRAINED AND UNTRAINED MEN.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYPERTHERMIA 40, NO. 1 (2023): 2179672–2179672.
35SERBULEA, MIHAELA, AND UNNIKRISHNAN PAYYAPPALLIMANA. “ONSEN (HOT SPRINGS) IN JAPAN—TRANSFORMING TERRAIN INTO HEALING LANDSCAPES.” HEALTH & PLACE 18, NO. 6 (2012): 1366–1373.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THERAPEUTIC HEAT FIELDS CAN EXTEND BEYOND CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS TO BECOME CONVECTIVE AND RADIANT ATMOSPHERES. THE LINE BETWEEN HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES IS OFTEN GRAY, SINCE CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS CAN ALSO RADIATE HEAT INTO AIR OR WATER, WHICH CAN THEN PROVOKE FLUID HEAT TO CIRCULATE THROUGH AIR OR WATER CONVECTIVELY.32 CONDUCTION, CONVECTION, AND RADIATION ARE PRESENT AT SOME POINT CHRONOLOGICALLY IN EVERY HEATING SYSTEM, EVEN IF ONE OF THEM SERVES AS A “PRIMARY” OR DOMINANT” HEAT TRANSFER MODALITY AT THE POINT WHEN THE HUMAN BODY INTERACTS WITH THE SYSTEM. A SITUATION THAT FINDS ITSELF AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN A HEATED OBJECT AND A HEATED ATMOSPHERE IS A MICROCLIMATE. IN A SIMPLE ENCLOSURE WITH FOUR WALLS AND A ROOF, THERE ARE AT LEAST SIX MICROCLIMATES.33 EACH MICROCLIMATE IS SITUATED ON OR NEAR A PART OF THE WALLS AND ROOF, AND INHABITANTS CAN ALTERNATE BETWEEN THEM TO SELF-REGULATE. ALTHOUGH NOT NECESSARILY ALWAYS AS SHARP A CONTRAST SENSORILY AS A CONDUCTIVE OBJECT, TRANSITION BETWEEN MICROCLIMATES CAN PRODUCE SIMILAR PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS, AS CAN HEATED ATMOSPHERES WITH SHARPER TEMPERATURE CONTRASTS LIKE THE SAUNA, WHICH I WILL ELABORATE MORE ON LATER.34
OUR EMOTIONAL REACTION TO HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES REACHES A POINT WHERE IT BECOMES COMPLETELY SYMBIOTIC WITH OUR PHYSICAL REACTION TO THEM, BOTH ON THE INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNAL LEVEL. THIS IS ONE PHENOMENON THAT OCCURS IN THE USAGE OF JAPANESE ONSEN (COMMUNAL BATHS).
THE OBJECTS THAT RADIATE ARE NOT THEMSELVES RADIANT, BUT THEIR SURROUNDINGS ARE. RADIANT ATMOSPHERES CAN CAUSE OBJECTS TO BECOME CONDUCTIVE OR THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME CONVECTIVE/HYBRID
THE OBJECTS THAT RADIATE ARE NOT THEMSELVES RADIANT, BUT THEIR SURROUNDINGS ARE. RADIANT ATMOSPHERES CAN CAUSE OBJECTS TO BECOME CONDUCTIVE OR THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME CONVECTIVE/HYBRID
RADIANT ATMOSPHERES
RADIANT ATMOSPHERES
GEOGRAPHICAL
THE SUN’S RAYS
THE AREA AROUND A HEARTH
THE AREA AROUND A SEMI-ACTIVE VOLCANO
SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS THAT TRANSMIT HEAT VIA THE AIR; THEIR HEAT CONTENT MAKES INDIRECT CONTACT WITH THE HUMAN BODY VIA THE AIR
SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS THAT TRANSMIT HEAT VIA THE AIR; THEIR HEAT CONTENT MAKES INDIRECT CONTACT WITH THE HUMAN BODY VIA THE AIR
THE WATER’S SURFACE, WHICH REFLECTS THE SUN’S RAYS
INCANDESCENT LIGHTING
RADIANT FLOORS AND WALLS (WHEN YOU SHARE SPACE WITH THEM, NOT TOUCH THEM)
CONCRETE PARKING LOT
RADIATOR (WHEN SHARING SPACE, NOT TOUCHING)
FIGURE 1.9
FIGURE 1.10
I SUSPECT THAT IT IS NOT ONLY CULTURALLY-SPECIFIC
CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT THAT WORK AS COMMUNITY-BUILDING TOOLS IN THIS WAY, SINCE CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS CAN ALSO BE FOUND AS SIMPLE GEOGRAPHICAL ALLOWANCES (LIKE THE HOT SAND OF A BEACH, OR SHADY SIDE OF A HILL, AS MENTIONED EARLIER). THE POTENTIAL FOR COMMUNITY-BUILDING THROUGH WELLNESS IS FOUND IN NATURAL RESOURCES THEMSELVES AND NOT JUST THE WAYS DIFFERENT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES HAVE TRADITIONALLY ACTUALIZED THEM FOR THIS PURPOSE.36 AS OUR PLANET CONTINUES TO CHANGE AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS SHIFT, I BELIEVE WE CAN LEARN FROM THE PROTOTYPING OF THESE TRADITIONALLY-BUILT HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES AS PRECEDENTS IN ORDER TO CONCEPTUALIZE NEW DEPLOYMENTS FOR COMMUNITY-BUILDING THROUGH WELLNESS WITHOUT DIRECTLY COPYING OR MISAPPROPRIATING THEM OUTSIDE OF THE CULTURAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT FROM WHICH THEY ORIGINATED.
MORESO, ONE CANNOT ENTIRELY DISCOUNT POST-INDUSTRIAL MECHANICAL HEATING SYSTEMS AS POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITY-BUILDING THROUGH INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS SIMPLY BECAUSE WE ARE NOT BEST-ADAPTED TO THEM FROM THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW LAID OUT IN THE WORKING DEFINITION FOR WELLNESS. HERE, IT IS BEST TO RETURN TO THE TOPIC OF AYURVEDIC MEDICINE IN ORDER TO BRING FORTH A PARALLEL BETWEEN AYURVEDIC MEDICINE AND MODERN MEDICINE THAT WORKS THROUGH SIMILAR LOGIC BETWEEN PRE- AND POST-INDUSTRIAL HEATING SYSTEMS. AYURVEDIC MEDICINE IS MAINLY PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE, IN THAT IT WORKS BY PROMOTING A LIFESTYLE THAT REDUCES THE RISK OF DISEASE. IT CAN ALSO PROPOSE SOLUTIONS FOR EASING THE HEALING PROCESS OF DISEASES NOT CAUSED BY HUMAN OVERPOPULATION OR TOXIC CHEMICAL EXPOSURE, SUCH AS FUNGAL AND BACTERIAL INFECTIONS. MODERN MEDICINE – WHILE IT HAS PREVENTATIVE ELEMENTS – IS MAINLY GEARED AT SOLVING PROBLEMS CREATED OR EXACERBATED BY MODERN SOCIETY, SUCH AS VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES, IMMUNODEFICIENCIES, OR EVEN CANCER.37 MODERN MEDICINE CAN ALSO SOLVE SIMPLE PROBLEMS AS OUTLINED ABOVE (FUNGAL, BACTERIAL INFECTIONS) BUT IT DOES SO THROUGH CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS THAT ARE NOT NATURALLY OCCURRING IN OUR FOOD. AND MODERN MEDICINE IS KNOWN FOR ITS “SIDE EFFECTS” BECAUSE EVEN WHILE SOMETIMES NECESSARY AND ADVISABLE FOR OUR SURVIVAL, CONSUMING MODERN MEDICINE CAN LEAD TO OTHER HEALTH ISSUES. DESPITE THIS, WE LIVE IN A POST-INDUSTRIAL WORLD WHERE WE DO OFTEN HAVE TO SOLVE “UNNATURAL” PROBLEMS WITH “UNNATURAL” SOLUTIONS.38 WE MUST SOMETIMES SUBMIT TO MODERN MEDICINE TO TREAT HEALTH PROBLEMS THAT MAY NOT HAVE OCCURRED HAD WE BEEN SUBSISTING ON A HUNTING AND FORAGING DIET WHILE EXERCISING TO OBTAIN OUR FOOD EVERY DAY (OR AT LEAST, MAY NOT HAVE OCCURRED IN THE SAME FREQUENCY).
THE ROLE OF HEAT IN INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY WELLNESS
UNENCLOSED PRE-BUILT ENVIRONMENTS INTEGRATED INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP WELLNESS HEAT NEEDS, SUCH AS GATHERING AROUND A HOT SPRING. THESE CANNOT BE ADAPTED TO LARGER SCALES AND OFFER MINIMAL CONTROLS OR SOLUTIONS TO OUR CHANGING
*NO PASSIVE OR ACTIVE HEATING SYSTEMS
*NO PASSIVE OR ACTIVE HEATING SYSTEMS
HEAT-BASED INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS TYPE AUNMANIPULATED NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
HEAT-BASED INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS TYPE AUNMANIPULATED NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
UNENCLOSED. DIRECT ACCESS TO NUTRIENTS AND NATURAL TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION, LESS CONTROL
UNENCLOSED. DIRECT ACCESS TO AND NATURAL TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION, LESS CONTROL
PASSIVE HEATING SYSTEMS EMPLOYED BY INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN EARLY ENCLOSED BUILT ENVIRONMENTS CONSIDERED COMMUNITY INTEGRATION AS PART OF THEIR MODEL OF WELLNESS. CULTURAL BUILT HEAT ARTIFACTS REFLECT THIS. THIS PROVIDES THE BEST BALANCE BETWEEN ACCESS TO NATURAL RESOURCES NECESSARY FOR WELLNESS WITH AMPLE CONTROLS THAT ARE STILL BIOMIMETIC IN NATURE.
PASSIVE HEATING SYSTEMS EMPLOYED BY INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN EARLY ENCLOSED BUILT ENVIRONMENTS CONSIDERED COMMUNITY INTEGRATION AS PART OF THEIR MODEL OF WELLNESS. CULTURAL BUILT HEAT ARTIFACTS REFLECT THIS. THIS PROVIDES THE BEST BALANCE BETWEEN ACCESS TO NATURAL RESOURCES NECESSARY FOR WELLNESS WITH AMPLE CONTROLS THAT ARE STILL BIOMIMETIC IN NATURE.
*PASSIVE HEATING SYSTEMS
*PASSIVE HEATING SYSTEMS
HEAT-BASED INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS TYPE BMANIPULATED NATURAL ENVIRONMENT “CULTURAL BUILT HEAT ARTIFACTS”
ENCLOSED. DIRECT ACCESS TO NUTRIENTS AND MILD BUT NTURAL TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION, BALANCED ACCESS TO NATURE AND CONTROLS
HEAT-BASED INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS TYPE B - PARTIALLY MANIPULATED NATURAL ENVIRONMENT “CULTURAL BUILT HEAT ARTIFACTS” ENCLOSED. DIRECT ACCESS TO NUTRIENTS AND MILD BUT NATURAL TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION, BALANCED ACCESS TO NATURE AND CONTROLS
INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
RAW BUILDING MATERIALS FOR BUILDING SHELTER
GEOGRAPHICALLY-SUPPORTED OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE WITH OTHERS
INSTANT CLIMATE/TEMPERATURE VARIATION (NOT SEASONAL)
NUTRIENT INTAKE THROUGH BOTH FOOD AND THE ATMOSPHERE (UNENCLOSED)
FOUR ENVIRONMENTAL INGREDIENTS FOR INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS
MANMADE ENVIRONMENT
*ACTIVE HEATING SYSTEMS
*ACTIVE HEATING SYSTEMS
HEAT-BASED INDIVIDUAL WELLNESS TYPE C - OBSTRUCTED NATURAL ENVIRONMENT - FULLY MAN MADE SETTING
ENCLOSED. HIGHLY REGULATED HEAT/COOL ENVIRONMENT, LESS-THAN-OPTIMAL LEVELS OF TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION, LESS BIOPHILIA ACCESS
ENCLOSED. HIGHLY REGULATED HEAT/COOL ENVIRONMENT, LESS-THAN-OPTIMAL LEVELS OF TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION, LESS BIOPHILIA ACCESS
MANUFACTURED BUILDING
MATERIALS FOR BUILDING SHELTER
NUTRIENT INTAKE THROUGH BOTH FOOD AND ARCHTIECTURAL COMPONENTS, INDOOR AIR QUALITY 4
STRUCTURALLY-SUPPORTED OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE WITH OTHERS
INSTANT CLIMATE/TEMPERATURE VARIATION (NOT SEASONAL)
POTENTIAL
37WEAR, A. (ANDREW). KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH MEDICINE, 1550-1680 / ANDREW WEAR. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. 38BANHAM, REYNER. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE WELL-TEMPERED ENVIRONMENT / REYNER BANHAM. CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1969. 2007.
FIGURE 1.11
THE SAME CAN BE SAID BETWEEN PRE-INDUSTRIAL PASSIVE HEATING SYSTEMS AND SETTINGS, VERSUS POST-INDUSTRIAL ACTIVE HEATING SYSTEMS AND SETTINGS. IN REYNER BANHAM’S BOOK ARCHITECTURE OF THE WELL-TEMPERED ENVIRONMENT, HE EXPLAINS THAT PART OF THE REASON THAT MECHANICAL HVAC SYSTEMS CAME INTO BEING IS BECAUSE THEY BECAME NECESSARY WHEN PEOPLE FIRST STARTED BUILDING LARGE FACTORY BUILDINGS. HUMANS HAD NEVER COME TOGETHER TO FORM SUCH MASSIVE COLLECTIVES IN CITIES BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL ERA, AND THE ADVENT CAME WITH A HOST OF NEW HEALTH ISSUES. FOR A BUILDING SUCH AS A SKYSCRAPER TO KEEP ITS INHABITANTS ALIVE AND THRIVING, PASSIVE HEATING AND VENTILATION WASN’T ENOUGH. HUMANS WERE NOT ADAPTED TO LIVING IN THIS KIND OF DENSITY, AND NEITHER WAS THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. THUS, MANY MECHANICAL HVAC SYSTEMS EMERGED TO SUPPORT OUR MODERN LIFESTYLE. TODAY, WE FIND OURSELVES STILL LIVING IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL ERA AND NEEDING TO USE MANY MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, ESPECIALLY IN URBAN SETTINGS. BY NEEDING TO SOLVE DESIGN PROBLEMS IN “UNNATURAL” WAYS DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, HOWEVER, WE WERE LEFT WITH A NUMBER OF TOOLS THAT WE CAN STILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT – WITH THE CORRECT APPLICATION – HARKEN BACK TO THE WAY WE FULFILLED OUR NEEDS IN THE PRISTINE NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS WE ONCE LIVED IN. AMONG THESE TOOLS IS CLEANLY-GENERATED ELECTRICITY FROM NON-FOSSIL FUEL SOURCES. INDUSTRIALIZATION SHAPED THE CURRENT HUMAN CONDITION FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, AND WE CANNOT – NOR SHOULD WE – ENTIRELY DISREGARD THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES WE INHERITED FROM IT, AS WE CAN NOW SATISFY HEAT-BASED WELLNESS TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY ON LARGER SCALES. CONVERSELY, WE CAN ALSO REDUCE MECHANICAL HEATING SYSTEM USAGE BY REDUCING THE SCALE OF BUILDINGS, AS MANY WELLNESS ISSUES ARE CAUSED BY THE SCALE OF THE BUILDING ITSELF. WE DO NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TO RETURN SOLELY TO THE HEARTH, EVEN THOUGH IT CONTINUES TO SERVE US WELL.
WHILE NO HEATED OBJECT OR ATMOSPHERE – WHETHER PRE- OR POST-INDUSTRIAL - IS UNIVERSAL IN FORM, HEATED OBJECTS AND ATMOSPHERES ARE ENVIRONMENTALLY DRIVEN ACROSS MANY DIFFERENT INHABITABLE ZONES FOR HUMANS AND ARE, IN FACT, A UNIVERSAL INGREDIENT FOR WELLNESS. AND BY EXTENSION – ENTIRELY NECESSARY FOR SCULPTING COMMUNITY.
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CREATED. PEOPLEAREALWAYS WELCOMETO FUNDRAISING,JOININEVENTS(E.G.SPORTS,FESTIVALS).NEIGHBORSLOOKOUTFORONE ANOTHER.ALL PEOPLEARE TREATEDFAIRLY.THERE ARELOWLEVELSOFCRIME,DRUGS, ANDANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIORWITH COMMUNITY-FRIENDLYVIABLE,EFFECTIVE,ANDPOLICING.
OPPORTUNITYLOCALPEOPLEGAVETHETOMAKEMONEYAND HAVEAGOODQUALITYOFLIFE.THEYSMALLAREENCOURAGEDTOOPENUP BUSINESSESANDSPENDTHEIRWAGESLOCALLYTOHELP IMPROVE OTHERPEOPLE’S BUSINESSES. SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSESCREATE BETTERMOREJOBSFORMOREPEOPLE,AND STANDARDSOFLIVINGFORMOREPEOPLEINTHE COMMUNITY.
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WELLNESS BENEFITS
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CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS
CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS
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Yes, the same people who wait until the c l temperatures of nightfa to take a hot shower, to have a cup of warm tea - these people are driven out of their homes to milwauk by dangerous levels of heat. even here in milwauk , areas where the heat island e ect is already present today - overly paved areas of the city - are completely uninhabitable in 2075, and manifest as abandoned big-box store parking lots. Nobody can live on these abandoned parking lots without special intervention, but sti somehow, milwauk k ps ge ing new climate migrantseven as they continue their human rituals: Escape the extreme heat, find stable temperatures, and s k out the tea, the sauna, the hot springs, once it is safe to do so.
That said, inhabitants are natura y motivated to move into gr ner areas where temperatures wi be lower. nobody thinks to build on the abandoned parking lots, which are already uninhabitable.
A few radical inhabitants of Milwauk – “pion rs” – have su e fu y designed and implemented aspects of “regenerative biogenic colonies” on abandoned co ercial parking lots. They have a omplished this by harvesting heat.
they use technology that reduces heat content both within co2 and otherwise, to grow materials for natural homes with contro ed temperatures, and then engage in their co unal heat-based activities safely from within their new structures
They transform heat in ways that generate electricity, and organic building and landscaping materials such as timber, compost, biochar, and ra ed earth which then serve to expand their colonies. Their e orts have lowered the average air temperatures within their colonies by transforming heat and carbon dioxide into new landscapes. a few of these new regenerative colonies have begun to su ly exce electricity to the traditional co ercial entities in other areas of the city.
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the over-density to heat island e ect pipeline creates a domino e ect where people are constantly l king to relocate within the city, and the areas they relocate to get destroyed very quickly.
CA ING HUMBLE CITIZENS OF MILWAUK ! YOU - WHO MIGRATED HERE WHEN YOUR HOME WAS SWELTERING, WHO CAME WITH A DREAM! WHERE IS YOUR DREAM NOW? YOU, WHO MOVE SUBCONCIOUSLY TO THE MORE DESIRABLE PARTS OF THE CITY STI REMAINING, ONLY TO S THEM SLIP FROM YOUR FINGERS WITH EACH PA ING YEAR. YOU, WHO FEAR EACH DAY THAT OUR ENERGY RESOURCES WI ONE DAY NOT M T THE DEMANDS REQUIRED TO COUNTERACT THE VICIOUS HEAT. THE MILWAUK DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS CA S UPON THOSE BOLD ENOUGH TO PURSUE THE DREAM OF A VIABLE FUTURE FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND IS PREPARED TO PROVIDE AN INITIAL
the Milwauk Department of Public Works had decided to provide an economic incentive program for inhabitants of Milwauk living in traditiona y constructed areas to take on the heat farmer Initiative and move to a new regenerative biogenic colony in the city. they are charged with cultivating intentional co unities based on we ne through the catalyst of heat, through a model that is now crucia y helping human life the city.
As such, the heat farmers and their families are now compensated for living restoratively through heat, And they get to live in beautiful biogenic homes amidst lower temperatures as they s their co unities expand. At the end of the day, when temperatures fa , or on the rare but sti present cold day, or inside their homes at any time, they wi enter their saunas, their radiant slabs, and drink their tea from within. because despite the conditions of the planet, heat sti co ects them to themselves and each other.
heat as an overabundant crop heat as an overabundant
HEAT TRANSFERENCE; SELECTIVE ENTRY
GLAZING, INTERIOR BIOMASS, AND REFLECTIVE PANELING/SOLAR COOKERS
POSITIONS AVAILABLE:
COMMUNITY CHEFS
BIOCHAR PRODUCTION WORKERS SPA WORKERS
SUMMER DUTIES:
OUTDOOR COOKING, BIOCHAR PRODUCTION & STORAGE
WINTER DUTIES:
SAUNA MAINTENANCE, ONDOL MAINTENANCE, INDOOR COOKING
HEAT FARMERS DIVISION 4
HEAT FARMERS DIVISION 3
HEAT TRANSFORMATION
SYSTEM:
HIGH INTENSITY MEDIUM INTENSITY
DIRECT AIR CAPTURE WITH AMINE SOLUTION
CHEMICAL CONVERSION TO OXYGEN + SODIUM CARBONATE WITH SODIUM PEROXIDE SOLUTION
REDIRECT AND USE LIQUID CO2 IN GREENHOUSES
STORE CAPTURED CO2 IN NEWLY-MIXED CONCRETE BETWEEN EXISTING PAVEMENT AND NEW RAISED FOUNDATIONS
POSITIONS AVAILABLE:
LIQUID CO2 STORAGE MAINTENANCE
SYSTEM:
SEEBECK GENERATORS CONNECTED TO SOLAR COOKERS AND BIOMASS MATERIALS SUCH AS CONCRETE AND MASONRY
SEEBECK GENERATORS CONNECTED TO HOT/COLD COMPOST SLABS, WHICH FORMA SEASONAL KINETIC ENERGY LOOP WITH THE SOLAR COOKERS HEAT FOR DECOMPOSITION (BIOCHAR AND COOKING)
POSITIONS AVAILABLE:
PLUMBER/WATER TECHNICIAN
COMPOST MANAGERS
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
SUMMER DUTIES:
ENSURE COMPOST SLABS KEEP A SLOWER METABOLISM (COLD COMPOST) TO CREATE A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT BETWEEN THEM AND THE SEEBECK GENERATORS ON THE HOT SOLAR COOKERS
WINTER DUTIES:
ENSURE COMPOST SLABS KEEP A FASTER
METABOLISM (HOT COMPOST) TO CREATE A TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM AND THE SEEBECK GENERATORS ON THE COLD OUT-OF-USE SOLAR COOKERS
RESULTS:
YEAR-ROUND TEMPERATURE GRADIENT TO CREATE CONVECTIVE FLOWS FOR WATER AND ELECTRICITY
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MILWAUK JOURNAL SENTINEL,
GREENHOUSE WORKER
DIRECT AIR CAPTURE PLANT MANAGEMENT
INDUSTRIAL CHEMIST
SUMMER DUTIES:
ENSURE CO2 REDUCTION IN ATMOSPHERE
ALLOWS FOR OPTIMAL TRANSITION OF SEASONS; I.E. REDUCE IT BUT NOT ENOUGH TO PREVENT SUMMER FROM HAPPENING
ENSURE AMINE AND SODIUM PEROXIDE
SOLUTIONS ARE ADJUSTED TO HIGH BUT DECREASING LEVELS OF CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE
WINTER DUTIES:
ROUTINELY MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT SO AS NOT TO BE AFFECTED BY INCLEMENT
WEATHER
ENSURE AMINE AND SODIUM PEROXIDE
SOLUTIONS ARE ADJUSTED TO LOW BUT INCREASING LEVELS OF CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE
GREENHOUSE MAINTENANCE YEAR-ROUND
RESULTS:
LOWER CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE ALSO LOWERS THE AMOUNT OF HEAT THAT BE BE TRAPPED IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND LOWERS TEMPERATURES
CA ING
HUMBLE CITIZENS WHERE IS YOUR DREAM NOW? S THEM SLIP FROM YOUR NOT M T THE DEMANDS THOSE BOLD ENOUGH TO $20,000 STIPEND ALONG THE
CO2 STORAGE AND TRANSFORMATION
THE GENERAL DIMENSIONS AND FEATURES OF THE SITE SUGGEST RELATIONSHIPS OF PROPORTIONALITY BETWEEN VARIOUS SYSTEMS AND IDENTIFY JOBS CREATED ON SITE FOR THEIR UPKEEP. THESE DIAGRAMS PROVIDE THE BUILDING BLOCKS FROM WHICH TO UNDERSTAND HOW MANY AND HOW LARGE OF VARIOUS SYSTEMS FIT ON THE GIVEN SITE, HOW MUCH ENERGY THEY TAKE TO RUN, AND WHAT AND HOW MANY MATERIALS THEY PRODUCE. FROM THESE DIAGRAMS, SEVERAL CIRCULAR ECONOMIES BECOME POSSIBLE, EACH WITH SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT RESULTS IN MATERIALS THEY PRODUCE TO BUILD BIOGENIC ARCHITECTURE. THEY ALSO SHED LIGHT ON VARIOUS POSSIBILITIES OF ENERGY FLOW.
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THE GENERAL DIMENSIONS AND FEATURES OF THE SITE SUGGEST RELATIONSHIPS OF PROPORTIONALITY BETWEEN VARIOUS SYSTEMS AND IDENTIFY JOBS CREATED ON SITE FOR THEIR UPKEEP. THESE DIAGRAMS PROVIDE THE BUILDING BLOCKS FROM WHICH TO UNDERSTAND HOW MANY AND HOW LARGE OF VARIOUS SYSTEMS FIT ON THE GIVEN SITE, HOW MUCH ENERGY THEY TAKE TO RUN, AND WHAT AND HOW MANY MATERIALS THEY PRODUCE. FROM THESE DIAGRAMS, SEVERAL CIRCULAR ECONOMIES BECOME POSSIBLE, EACH WITH SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT RESULTS IN MATERIALS THEY PRODUCE TO BUILD BIOGENIC ARCHITECTURE. THEY ALSO SHED LIGHT ON VARIOUS POSSIBILITIES OF ENERGY FLOW.
