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International audienceAfter the crisis of internationalism in architecture during the 1930s, the work of Le Corbusier changed toward a new sense of relationship with local culture and environment. Employing current bioclimatic procedures of analysis to study his projects, methodologies and works, we can know objectively early approaches to sustainability.The research, focused on Millowners Association Building (Ahmedabad, 1951) as an outstanding work in this period of change, reveals the environmental functionality of the proposals made by the Swiss architect.Architectural devices like the brise-soleil, the aerateur or the garden roof, were only different parts of a comprehensive response to climate. As a result, the work in shape and construction from a scientific perspective, became the core of an architecture adapted to the environment.Consecuencia de la crisis del internacionalismo en arquitectura, a partir de los años treinta la obra de Le Corbusier giró para establecer vínculos con el lugar, representado por la cultura y el clima. Estudiar sus proyectos, métodos y obras mediante los actuales mecanismos de análisis energético, permite conocer de un modo objetivo aproximaciones a la sostenibilidad anteriores a nuestros días.El trabajo experimental se centra sobre el Palacio de los Hilanderos en Ahmedabad como edificio significativo de este cambio, arrojando luz sobre la verdadera funcionalidad medioambiental de las propuestas del arquitecto suizo.Soluciones como el brise-soleil, el aerateur o la cubierta ajardinada eran parte de una respuesta global hacia el clima, en la que el trabajo sobre los aspectos formales y constructivos de la arquitectura desde una perspectiva científica, constituyó el núcleo de su adaptación al medio

In the mid-twentieth century, the evolution of the various dimensions involved in the notion of climate led to a different vision of the relationship between bodies and indoor atmospheres. This article states that Modern Architecture hosted and promoted this change in cultural representations, social practices and technical developments of temperature and climate in indoor spaces. Our aim is to bring together points of view and interpretations of the cultural history, the history of techniques and the history of sensory perception in order to understand how the climatic dimension of indoor atmospheres became an agent of architectural transformation. In particular, the article focuses like a case study on the collaboration between Le Corbusier and André Missenard, a climate control specialist, through original archival research. As a result, we show how their theoretical reflections and built works illustrate a broader interest in architecture as a way of creating the ideal climates for modern ways of life.

The contemporary design of public spaces integrates frequently urban cooling installations for thermal comfort in summertime. However, the details of the thermal experience that they provide is yet partially unknown. This paper studies how methods and techniques arising from microclimatology, urban studies and sensory studies can interact for characterizing thermal comfort outdoors. We have reviewed thirteen papers using meteorological measuring instruments and assessed them according to the requirements of methods originating from social sciences and sensory studies for the public space. As a result, we discuss the potentialities and limitations of such techniques to interact through an interdisciplinary methodological design.

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