You might have a semi open plan apartment with the bedroom inside a smaller room with a sliding door you could use to seal it.
Quite an efficient approach I thought, doesn't waste energy cooling the entire space but offers somewhere cool if you need it.
As an example, if you consider large buildings like hotels that have an open central courtyard, the open spaces could use the lattice structures for cooling/circulation while the rooms, banquet/conference halls and other closed spaces can use airconditioners.
Since the lattices offer passive cooling, they can lower the overall energy bill.
Ceiling fans would also work really well, but similarly require openings in buildings. Now you only see them in traditional buildings (read: museums most often) because they were made with airflow in mind, before the age of AC.
People will prefer a hermetically sealed building because it’s the best escape from their own mess.
where along with being isolated from the natural environment they can be isolated from everyone else and only interact over social media.
Sounds a bit like being in a tomb to me, but then again, I was never fully domesticated.
The smaller side streets are usually peaceful, unless you have the misfortune of living next to a building under construction.
"Jaali’s cooling feature relies on the Venturi effect in a similar way to an air conditioning unit. 'When air passes through holes, it picks up velocity and penetrates afar. Due to the small apertures, air gets compressed and when released it gets cooler,' says Pandya."
It is an just an amplifier like radiator , to reduce the amount of HVAC you need . In 16th century they built only lattices because that’s all they had.
The suggestion is to use those ideas in modern design not copy paste the same designs.