Thursday, October 21, 2010

22 . AC Roots



















Air-conditioning is a trade of logics. Like tree roots taking their shortest routes to reach for water, the placement of FCU and condenser is strategic, considering the as-minimum-as-possible length of trunking for technical and economical reasons.

For an old building, with no provision for ac system, it is inevitable to run exposed trunking on the facade. Layers and layers of trunking are added as the function of the building evolve through time. The absence of ac condensers and trunking reveals us traces of time; a superimposition of history of the facade, of its renovations. Like a massive tree with an extensive and complex rooting system, it covers whatever on the ground within its reach.

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