The top of a wind tower glows in the twilight at the Heritage and Diving Villages in Shindagha. Dubai, UAE.
The Heritage and Diving Village, located in the Shindagha Historical Neighborhood in Dubai, was created to embrace the heritage events and to display a live image of the old traditional life in United Arab Emirates. In addition to preserving the old traditional customs of the country, the special characteristics of old houses is also on display. Before the invention of air conditioners, inhabitants of the Middle East used wind towers to capture wind and cool their homes. The wooden cross bars in these tall structures were draped with wet cloths so the wind would cool as it blew into the homes in an early evaporative cooling scheme.
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Location: Heritage and Diving Villages in Shindagha. Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
Photo credit: © Mauricio Rojas / Alamy / Afripics
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