Our first day in Santiago, was a day to get acquainted with the city. We walked around & had many discussions. The Ministry of National Defense and the plaza around it was definitely one of the more interesting sites of the day. It was interesting to see that nearly every window had an air conditioner in it. Apparently there is no central air conditioning. I found this also to be true in one of my recent research projects.
For a past history class I was observing and researching the work of Oscar Niemeyer, and from that, I found out that he was one of the first people to use an air handling unit to cool a large portion of a building. It seems that from his work a few decades ago, that has not caught on. People just prefer the window air conditioning unit?
Photos from Day 1
June 19
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