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 Issue of March 24, 2008 
   

Air Quality Is Essential to Comfortable Living

ULRIKE PASSE is an assistant professor of architecture at Iowa State University. She teaches comprehensive design studio and courses on environmental forces and control systems. She is a licensed architect and recently was elected as a member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten, the German equivalent of the FAIA.
Natural or hybrid ventilation and green design in architecture are strongly related. Good air quality is as essential to comfortable living as thermal comfort. Both can be achieved with thorough spatial design strategies in most climates.

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