Opinionated Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Passively-cooled, Low-cost, Low-tech Medicine Warehouses for Hot Climates, and a Design Hypothesis Based on Dry Downdraft Cooling

This booklet analyses the general principles that may guide the design and construction of bioclimatic (cooled with no mechanic plants), low-tech, low-cost medicine warehouses for hot-arid and hot-humid climates and investigates some thermal performances of specific design solutions aiming to that. The solutions that have been analysed are aimed to be easily buildable and apt to be approached with self-construction methods. 3D architectural (Sketchup) files and thermal simulation (ESP-r) files of the design models are made available.