How does building act as climatic filter?

Answer 1

Buildings take in air from the atmosphere, process it internally and exhaust it. Buildings catch the rain on their roofs and drives, and walks, and then direct it back to the streams, rivers, sounds, and ocean. Buildings let in light, and filter it for the inhabitants. They let in the wind and ventilate the spaces within. They displace the earth; they attach themselves to the sides of the earth and break the flow of the land; they temporarily relocate nature's materials; They hold their place in time, and, eventually rot and dissolve back into the soil. While they're around, they filter the environment.