Developed Convenience, Purchased Convenience: Passive Design and Air Conditioning in Hong Kong

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https://www.archdaily.com/1040205/designed-comfort-purchased-comfort-passive-design-and-air-conditioning-in-hong-kong!.?.!Establishing thermal comfort when required an even more intentional and adjusted architectural intelligence– an interplay of orientation, massing,

material behavior, ventilation potential, shading, and the ways daylight and surface areas absorb and launch heat. This was not just a matter of taste, but of requirement. When a number of Hong Kong’s post-war modernist buildings were built in the late 1960s and 1970s, forming a considerable part of the city’s public housing and more comprehensive property stock, air-conditioning was not yet an ubiquitous, default service. Cooling, where present at all, was restricted and unevenly dispersed; comfort had to be negotiated through passive indicates, through area, exterior depth, operable openings, and weather detailing. It was just later on, especially through the 1970s and 1980s, as air-conditioning became progressively standardized throughout the region, that mechanical cooling began to displace this earlier matrix of architectural decision-making. Did cooling adversely affect architectural space, particularly in Hong Kong and the neighboring area? The more precise claim is that prevalent reliance on a/c has profoundly rearranged the reward structure of structure style.+9

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