Wind catchers
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Descripción
Any of various passive constructions built high above rooftops to collect prevailing breezes and channel them down into living spaces; common in hot, arid climates from North Africa to Pakistan.
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URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- windvangers [nl]
- wind catcher [en]
- wind catcher [es]
- air-scoops [en]
- catchers, wind [en]
- catches, wind [en]
- wind-catchers [en]
- wind catches [en]
- wind-scoops [en]
- windvanger [nl]
- windhapper [nl]
- windhappers [nl]