We will not know how many hours the Paume agency and the WePo design office were able to spend making this
“thermal inventory”
of the buildings in downtown Angers.
The study, conducted from 2019, is of scholarly precision.
In order to avoid sinking into what could have looked like the twelve labors of Hercules - the center has 2,000 buildings, from the 14th to the 20th century -, the office classified the habitats by major typologies: "non-adjoining" stone hotels or on the contrary “adjoining”, half-timbered houses, 19th century Angevin houses, with large or small facades, concrete frame buildings, etc.
He then looked at the characteristics of each typology in terms of heat or coolness, in a wealth of detail, measuring the rooms, counting the number of inhabitants, describing the type of heating, ventilation, exposure in the sun or proximity to plants.
Combining all this with the materials and times of construction, the firm deduced how to…
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