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Advice from an architect: 10 tips to create a cooler home
MANILA, Philippines – In a tropical country like the Philippines, heat, and humidity are our constant companions. They’re also the culprits behind most homes’ largest energy costs. Surprisingly, though, there are homes that are significantly cooler than others all throughout the year. Their secret? Climate-conscious design.
If you want a cooler home, what you want to do is maximize passive cooling and minimize ‘heat gain.’ A well-thought-out design, which includes choosing the right materials, proper sun protection, landscape design, and proper orientation, can make an enormous difference.”
1. Use light colors for your home’s exterior.
“One of the biggest mistakes a person can make in a country like ours is to use dark colors for external walls,”. Dark colors absorb the sun’s energy and retain heat for much longer. Stick to light colors, which reflect the heat from the sun and keep it away from your home.
2. Insulate your building envelope.
The building envelope is the physical separator between the interior and the exterior environments of a structure. “A well-insulated building envelope gives you less heat gain, so your home cools faster and your appliances don’t have to work as hard”
3. Create shade
“Keep the sun away from your house! The cooler you can keep the interior of your house, the less you have to spend on air conditioning. Indoor shade is helpful but doesn’t keep the heat out. External shade — eaves, overhangs, sunshades, even trees and plants to block the sun’s rays … these are more effective.”
4. Allow for cross ventilation.
Cross ventilation is a natural form of wind ventilation that drives air from openings at one side of a structure through to the other. Its success depends on the tightness of the building envelope, the position, and size of your openings (windows, doors, vents) as well as the path between the two sides of the house.
5. Play with squeeze points.
When wind enters through a smaller opening and exits through a bigger opening, that’s a ‘squeeze point.’ This creates a natural vacuum which increases wind velocity. “We usually incorporate squeeze points into our designs, but in an existing home, you can actually create the same effect by opening the window or door receiving the breeze a little less than the one on the opposite wall.” One just needs to understand where the wind comes from at different times of the year, as the wind changes depending on the month.
6. Let the prevailing wind enter at an oblique angle.
You get better air circulation when the wind enters the opening of your structure at an oblique angle of about 45-50 degrees. When wind passes through an oblique angle, it causes interior air to be more turbulent, allowing air to hit the corners of the structure.
7. Create a stack effect.
A stack effect is when warmer, lighter indoor air is displaced by cooler and denser outdoor air. If you create an opening high in the building and another low in the building, this causes a natural flow. If the air inside your structure is hotter than the air outside, the stack effect will make it float out the top opening, to be replaced with cooler air from outside.
8. Use fans to promote better airflow.
Hot air rises and escapes through the higher parts of your home. You can help it escape faster by pushing the air upwards with the use of fans. If you have standing fans, position them to move the hot air in the direction you want it to go (up). If you have a ceiling fan, it should be spinning counter-clockwise to push hot air up and out.
9. Landscape.
Let air pass through shaded areas to keep the air cool. Trees, if properly placed, can be used to cool the incoming air. Vegetation can also be used to funnel wind and free air movement maintained around the structure.
10. If all else fails, buy and use appliances wisely.
Despite having all these design features incorporated into your home, there really will be days that it’s just TOO hot anyway.” And this happens more and more often in this age of climate change and global warming.
“If you have to use air conditioning regularly, consider investing in Inverter type air-conditioning combined with solar energy, which is getting more and more affordable as the years go by. Try looking for energy star-rated appliances, and minimize the use of energy sucks like mini-oven toasters and other heating appliances. Making energy-conserving changes to your lifestyle can help to balance things out.”
SOURCE– Rappler.com
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Are you finally decided to build a house of your own or in your family? Well, you know it has to be ideal and perfect. You’ve been dreaming about this for years, after all! We know, it’s always hard to decide how your house should look. There are countless options. Here are the three small two-storey house plans, designs, and styles for free just for you.
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Selecting the facade of your dream home will be one of the most important decisions made during the home-building journey.
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