Pattern 230
Radiant Heat
Context Wall Membrane218 · Floor-Ceiling Vaults219 · Duct Space229
Problem
Warm air alone heats a room unevenly and restlessly — it rises, drifts, and slips away through every gap, so the body rarely feels the steady, penetrating warmth it actually craves.
Solution
Heat with warm, solid surfaces — a floor, a wall, a stove — that give off their heat as radiation, warming the body directly the way sunlight or a fire does, rather than merely warming the air around it.
Usage Floor-Ceiling Vaults219 · Duct Space229 · Built-In Seats202