Forest Air Conditioning Project
Mori Air Conditioning Project
Learning from the forest: A new form of air conditioning
For many years, we have been conducting research and development on air conditioning technologies that utilize groundwater and natural energy.
Within that context, a certain question arose.
"How does nature create a comfortable environment?"
Why does it feel cool when you enter a forest in the middle of summer?
Why is the shade of a tree so pleasant?
Why is there a refreshing breeze near streams?
There is no air conditioning in the forest.
However, comfortable environments certainly exist.
The Forest Air Conditioning Project is an attempt to learn about the natural mechanisms of nature and apply them to people's lives.
Forests are a giant natural air conditioning system
In the forest,
Water stored underground
Plant transpiration
Soil heat storage
Wind flow
Radiational cooling
These factors are all working together in a complex way.
A forest is not just a collection of plants,
It could be described as an air conditioning system that nature has created over tens of thousands of years.
The concept of "growth-oriented air conditioning"
Typical machinery and equipment begin to deteriorate the moment they are completed.
But Mori is different.
One year from now, we will be richer.
Two years later, she will be even more beautiful.
In ten years, it will have grown into a completely different form.
We
「Growing Air Conditioning」
That's what we call it.
The challenge of air conditioning for living.
The Mori Air Conditioning Project is
The goal is not to create an air conditioning system using plants.
The forest itself must grow healthily.
The circulation of water.
To enrich life.
As a result,
The space becomes more comfortable,
People are healed,
Energy consumption will be reduced.
We are aiming for a new approach to air conditioning.
The demonstration began in a small forest.
Currently, we are continuing our observations and experiments in a small forest we have created indoors.
There is a heat storage tank in the basement.
The water is circulating.
The plants are growing.
Lilies bloomed,
The sacred sakaki tree grows,
New life is sprouting.
We record those changes every day.
The forest is not trying to become an air conditioner.
As a result of living as a forest,
It's starting to act like an air conditioner.
Outlook for the future
The Mori Air Conditioning Project has only just begun.
A house.
Welfare facility.
factory.
Livestock facilities.
school.
Local community.
We are exploring the possibilities of creating new spaces that coexist with nature in various locations.
We believe.
Nature is not something to be overcome,
To be beings that live together.
Nurturing forests is
Nurturing people.
Nurturing a life.
And to nurture the future.
The Mori Air Conditioning Project is
It's just a small step.
The dream of 500,000 tsubo (approximately 1.65 million square meters) never faded.
It was in a forest the size of a single tatami mat.
It's starting to sprout again.
