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Air conditioning: comfort or restraint?

La climatisation, confort ou contrainte ?

Author(s) : AUBREE D.

Type of article: Article

Summary

The survey shows that the image of air-conditioning gives rise to attitudes from radical rejection to unconditional acceptance. Nevertheless, one of them appears to play a dominant part now: ambivalence. This is mainly because there are two antagonistic criteria for the comfort that air conditioning is claimed to provide for: a sensory model, and a standard one. Besides, daily experience sometimes contradicts the reference proposed by the models. One discovers especially that the comfort provided by air-conditioning can have unsuspected aspects, disadvantages and constraints, even though it can provide for comfort and freedom.

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  • Original title: La climatisation, confort ou contrainte ?
  • Record ID : 1996-1722
  • Languages: French
  • Subject: General information
  • Source: Cah. CSTB - n. 356
  • Publication date: 1995/01
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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