ventilation block
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thumb|Cobogó at the Federal University of Mato Grosso, [[Cuiabá]] Cobogó is the term generally given to the hollow wall-filling element present in some Brazilian buildings, typically made out of clay or cement. Its purpose is to enable increased airflow and light to enter the interior of a building, whether residential, commercial, or industrial.
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- Instance of
- concrete block
- Subclass of
- architectural element
- Country
- Brazil
- Material used
- glass
- Image
- Cobogó.jpg
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- Breeze blocks
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thumb|Cobogó at the Federal University of Mato Grosso, [[Cuiabá]] Cobogó is the term generally given to the hollow wall-filling element present in some Brazilian buildings, typically made out of clay or cement. Its purpose is to enable increased airflow and light to enter the interior of a building, whether residential, commercial, or industrial.
The name derives from the initials of the surnames of three engineers from Recife who jointly conceptualized the blocks at the beginning of the 20th century (1929–1930): Amadeu Oliveira Coimbra, Ernest August Boeckmann, and Antônio de Góis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ventilation block” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.