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Urban Heat Island
Despite the best intentions of placing windows on the windward side of your home,
you still won’t have much air movement indoors if you don’t allow for cross ventilation.
You need to have similar-
Envelope design
The wind beneath the wings of an aircraft creates high air pressure and keeps the
craft afloat. This is only part of the story, as the area above the wing is more
or less sheltered from the airflow and, therefore, lacks air -
Was has this to do with our home? I’m sure you can imagine that a building placed
perpendicular to the wind direction must withstand a considerable amount of wind
pressure on the upwind side (like underneath the wing), in particular multi-
Building a home with the long face towards the prevailing wind is a logical conclusion, but not always practical. You can, however, design a home with recesses and bays that create many high and low pressure areas. Fins or projections can be incorporated in the design to channel the breeze or to create pressure differences.
Ventilation can also be considered when deciding on the floorplan. Ideally, the building should have single depths rooms, but a better solution would be to plan the airflow in advance to create flow paths for the requirements of individual rooms.
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Windows
The word window was derived from the Old Norse word vindauga meaning wind eye. This also describes the purpose of a window: to provide an opening for the wind to enter a home.
Not so long ago, louver-