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The next step in sustainable design: Bringing the weather indoors

  • Written by Kevin Nute, Professor of Architecture, University of Oregon
imageDancing sunlight patterns reflected onto an interior ceiling from a wind-disturbed external water surface.Kevin Nute, CC BY-NC-ND

A building’s primary purpose may be to keep the weather out, but most do such an effective job of this that they also inadvertently deprive us of contact with two key requirements for our well-being and...

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