34 Miracles Ahead! 



This causes drafts and the room temperature is never 

 even. 



You have seen movies of bathing beauties out skiing when 

 the temperature was below freezing. Were they running the 

 risk of getting pneumonia? No radiant heat kept them 

 warm. The rays of the sun, which were reflected from the 

 snow, balanced the body heat lost to the cold air. 



Radiant cooling of a home works on the same principle as 

 radiant heating. You would pump air or cold water through 

 pipes and let your body radiate heat to the walls. But in most 

 climates a dehumidifier would be needed to take the moisture 

 out of the air, or the damp air would condense on the walls 

 and turn them into miniature waterfalls. 



Built-in Furniture 



You'll have fewer pieces of furniture to move around on 

 house-cleaning day in the future because more pieces will be 

 built into the house. The industrial designer Gilbert Rohde 

 believes that all "wall pieces" chests, cabinets, anything that 

 now remains in position against the wall will be built in as 

 part of the house. 



"The building-in of furniture," he explains, "will relieve a 

 family of bulky possessions, will be cheaper, and will permit 

 a better organization of space because the furniture will be 

 built to fit. Large sofas may also be built in with radio and 

 radio-television controls in the arms." 



T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings looks forward to the day of 

 fewer and better pieces of furniture. He feels that "man's 

 psychological fear of an empty space" has caused him to 

 clutter up his home with unnecessary furniture. He contends 

 that the first part of our adjustment to the house of tomorrow 

 must be to overcome this instinct to fill empty spaces. Then 



