A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building, usually of a single room, constructed over a spring. While the original purpose of a springhouse was to keep the spring water clean by excluding fa
A small spring house near Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
Stone spring house at Indian Springs State Park.
Photo of the interior of the John Barker Spring House in Canton, Ohio.
The Brewery Spring springhouse in Silver Plume, Colorado.
A windcatcher, wind tower, or wind scoop is a traditional architectural element used to create cross ventilation and passive cooling in buildings. Windcatchers come in various designs, depending on wh
Spring house
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An ab anbar (water reservoir) with windcatchers (openings near the top of the towers) in the central desert city of Yazd, Iran
Aghazadeh Mansion in Abarkooh, Iran, has an elaborate 18-m windtower with two levels of openings, plus some smaller windtowers.
Wind tower, exterior, Dubai Museum
The same interior. This wind tower has four openings and brown cloth vertical walls on the interior diagonals, so it can catch the wind from a range of directions.