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Warm Roofs, Healthy Homes: Designing for Community Well-being in Langui, Peru

Discover how Langui's high elevation influences design choices to combat cold and indoor smoke. Explore innovative roof designs to improve warmth and air quality in households lacking medical care and electricity in this developing community.

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Warm Roofs, Healthy Homes: Designing for Community Well-being in Langui, Peru

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  1. Temperature Tells All

  2. Welcome to Langui, Peru! • Elevation: 12,00 feet! • Few hundred households • Almost no medical care or electricity (developing community) Langui

  3. Building materials that hold in heat are important for staying warm

  4. Bad stoves lead to indoor smoke In many developing communities, stoves are used for cooking and heating the home

  5. How can we design roofs to keep our houses warm and let smoke escape?

  6. Test Setup Removable Student Roof Floorless Foamcore House Plastic Covered Window Door Box Full of Ice Heat Lamp Incense Insert Holes Cardboard Box Fan 68.1oF 88.3oF Indoor Thermometer Outdoor Thermometer Stop Watch

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