Bonkers from the Tokyo heat
Today the Tokyo heat was hell, but I gotta giggle at the lengths that the Japanese go to to stay cool.
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Hmmm, let’s see. The air-conditioner head unit at the top of the photo blows out cool air into the room and the compressor on the left exhausts the heat into the room.
Originally posted in March 2005….
Japan Factiod No. 2,235: In the Great Hanshin (Kobe) Earthquake of 1995, 19% of people were killed by their crappy air-conditioners.
Japanese air conditioner photos
via BoingBoing
.. a slide-show of photographs by Huschang Pourian, a designer living in Tokyo. Pourian is exhibiting his photographs of air conditioners ….. elements like tubes and wires destroying this order, going through walls, spreading chaos and confusion. Connected to these were white boxes with fans inside. I suddenly fell in love (visually) with these air conditioners and started chasing them….
But air conditioners are not just beautiful. Beside the fact that they make our lives much more comfortable….more…
Besides the fact that Japanese love of a visually “dynamic” living environment, “air-con” (air conditioners) are not included in rental properties in Japan. Central heating and cooling has been invented in Japan, so renters are on their own to find a solution to Japanese tropical heat. Dangling an air-con out the window is the standard-substandard solution here, meh.
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