Colonial school-building plans standardized geometry and air circulation by rank.

Evidence

The Commission on the Organisation of Knowledge published twelve separate sets of building plans. The correct plan was to be chosen for each school, according to whether it was of the first, second, or third rank, and to whether it was on a site adjoined by other buildings on four sides, on three, on two or one, or on none at all (this to ensure the correct passage of air and light). — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 274

Categorization

• XREF: The calibration of building plans to air and light echoes Foucault’s account of sanitary discipline and the concern with respirable air as a governance technology.