- Summer period                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            As we know from previous homeworks the climate of Semipalatinsk, that is very rigid during winter, is quite moderate during the hot seasons and this brings to low cooling needs. For this reason, the main design strategies of this kind of cities are mainly based on the winter period to reduce heating needs: orientation, openings, partitions are designed taking care mostly of the cold part of the year. However, some solutions can be studied also for the few days in which the temperature rises above the comfort ranges; for example, in some days during July the temperature reaches high values and a South window exposition could make it even higher: this is why an external movable shading device could be effective in this situation and useful to avoid an internal overheating.                                                                                             
 Also, having quite low external temperature during the night of the hottest months, the external air could be used in order to have a night purge cooling of our indoor space to avoid that either works for air quality; this is of course possible in non-residential buildings, which are not supposed to be occupied during night hours.