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Towards an Architecture of Clean Air

Max Hakkarainen (Dissertation In Preparation)

Chart of Historic Minimum Ventilation. Source: Rates Nielsen, Peter V., and Yuguo Li. 2019. “Ventilation.” In Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (Second Edition), edited by Jerome Nriagu, 344–55. Oxford: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.02002-9
Chart of Historic Minimum Ventilation. Source: Rates Nielsen, Peter V., and Yuguo Li. 2019. “Ventilation.” In Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (Second Edition), edited by Jerome Nriagu, 344–55. Oxford: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.02002-9
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Chart of Historic Minimum Ventilation. Source: Rates Nielsen, Peter V., and Yuguo Li. 2019. “Ventilation.” In Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (Second Edition), edited by Jerome Nriagu, 344–55. Oxford: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.02002-9
Chart of Risk for Different Health Risks Associated with Indoor Humidity Thresholds. Source: Sterling, E.M., A. Arundel, and T.D. Sterling. 1985. “Criteria for Human Exposure to Humidity in Occupied Buildings.” ASHRAE Transactions 91 (1): 611–22.
Chart of Historic Minimum Ventilation. Source: Rates Nielsen, Peter V., and Yuguo Li. 2019. “Ventilation.” In Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (Second Edition), edited by Jerome Nriagu, 344–55. Oxford: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.02002-9
Chart of Risk for Different Health Risks Associated with Indoor Humidity Thresholds. Source: Sterling, E.M., A. Arundel, and T.D. Sterling. 1985. “Criteria for Human Exposure to Humidity in Occupied Buildings.” ASHRAE Transactions 91 (1): 611–22.

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DISSERTATION

Indoor air can have large impacts on human health in terms of disease transmission, toxic exposures, and physiological and psychological comfort. However, within and outside the architectural discipline, approaches to understanding indoor air have been diverse and disjointed. The research work of my dissertation seeks to map the ways that indoor air is evaluated and synthesize a framework for understanding how building geometries, occupant behaviors, and materials cultivate indoor airscapes. This approach seeks to enable feedback for the ramifications of design decision making and reframe air as a living material of the built environment.

Max Hakkarainen