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Badgir windcatcher cooling puzzle

Also known as بادگیر

Badgir windcatcher cooling puzzle: photograph by Alireza Javaheri
Photo: Alireza Javaheri, CC BY 3.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Shape the tower openings, shafts and a water pool so desert wind flows down and cools rooms; route air to every room with limited bricks.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Iran.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of Persia, Caucasus and Central Asia.

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