 The building “East gate Centre” was designed to use passive cooling.  Passive cooling works by cooling in the day and venting at night.  It was biomimetically modeled on local Termite mounds.  First building in the world to use natural cooling to the level of advanced.

 Animal= Termites  A private complex of vents and tunnels  On the outside there is an opening that leads to the vents  The air travels to involve the heat from the Termites and rises

 They eat= Cellulose in various forms as plant fiber  What eats them= Ants, Monkeys  Habitat= Termites like to live, and feed in moist wood  Termite mounds are built out of dirt from the grass lands

 Completed 1990 On Robert Mugabe Avenue  Martin Lasher studied the nests created by the termites In the 1960’s  He developed the connection between how the mounds are built and how air was ventilated throughout them

 Eastgate Centre only uses 10% of the energy that other building would use to cool themselves

 Kingdom=Animalia  Phylum=Apthropoda  Class=Insecta  Order=Isoptera

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