Ventilation Quotes

• Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Profound, Secret, Existence

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• Aprovechar mejor el espacio, mejorar el aislamiento, conseguir que entre más luz natural en los edificios, reducir el consumo de energía de los sistemas de aire acondicionado y calefacción, asegurarnos de que la calidad del aire interior sea buena, que tengamos más oportunidades de ventilación natural en las estaciones intermedias. Estas son algunas de las cosas que podemos hacer.

  Ken Yeang

  Opportunity, Air, Space

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

  John Ruskin

  Age, Needs, Thorough

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• Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

  Ovid

  Body, Disease, Sickness

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• What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

  Hermione Gingold

  England, Crosses, Draught

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• I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly because nobody wanted to think about colonialism, but basically what you learned there was that, OK, the sun is here, so you should create natural ventilation here - an unbelievable amount of really sound principles that have been completely abandoned, so now everything is air conditioned with big machines.

  Rem Koolhaas

  School, Thinking, Air

  "'Lagos muestra cómo una ciudad puede recuperarse de un pozo muy, muy profundo': Rem Koolhaas habla con Kunlé Adeyemi". Entrevista con Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. 26 de febrero de 2016.

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• But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Writing, Down And, Flip

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.12, Bantam

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• Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.

  Elie Metchnikoff

  Fear, Real, Illumination

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• Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.

  Eva Hoffman

  Mean, Storm, Inward

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• I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Military, People, Shooting

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• Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project contained a good blend of creative sustainable design elements. The solar room for heating and ventilation was particularly creative and convincing.

  Edward Mazria

  Design, Creative, Challenges

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• The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the building’s exterior.

  Jeanne Gang

  Interesting, Bows, Building

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• Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Football, Running, Wall

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.112, Penguin UK

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• The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

  Alan Shepard

  Space, Stuff, Pads

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