@b_227012 I would say that it is probably true to an extent but then how much of SG's architecture is climate appropriate? not much after u pass the 1950's, its full of glass & concrete, so obv AC is needed or u get cooked in there
I would say u need to compare the temp's in the remaining

@b_227012 traditional Chinese, Malay, Indian, & Brit archi built in the colonial era while switching off the AC there to see how true his statement is. Humans have been living in the tropics for a very long time, longer than in other env's in fact, so it makes little sense to me to say

@b_227012 that this is some insurmountable obstacle. Yes a Northern European person living in Singapore will feel that way more often because his genes r adapted to a diff climate but y is a brown skinned Indian going on abt it. I very well rem walking in Hyd heat in summers of 90's & I

@b_227012 never came close to dying, sorry to say (for all the melodramatic vishwagurus making it out like they r walking on coals if summer comes). I was sometimes locked in the house because I would insist on going out to play in mid day summer heat