Architectural Designs

what is the importance of temperature and humidity in building designs?

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1. http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf22.htm It might help
2. This may be helpful. In wooden structures temperature hot and cold and humidity or lack of it will cause the wood to swell or contract accordingly. In summer when it rains and is hot and or humid,wood floors are silent. But in the dry cold of winter the same floor will creak and groan. This contracting and expanding allowed the old wooden homes to "breathe", no trapping of gasses, or other things in the ground or air. Newer homes are built so that they can't breathe, so they have to have all kinds of monitors for pollutants and gasses in the newer homes because they don't "breathe." All buildings must be flexable to some extent no matter what they are composed of. Take skyscrapers, if they were not built to "give" like a reed in the wind, the buildings would topple over in high winds. Most builders do not take into consideration the destruction of trees in cities and so the concrete laden area becomes a bake oven for lack of open land with trees and low vegatation such as bushes and grasses. Concrete can become brittle, a fireplace built wrong can catch fire and if a fire is started in a fireplace that has not finished curing it can and will explode, If the mud is not the right consistancy it will no last long and cause problems too. Does this help? Was this what you were looking for?