44 Ways #02: Design for the Breezes + Wind at Your Site

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of designing homes to utilize natural breezes for comfort and sustainability.

Hello! This is Episode 402. This is Way #2 of the 44 Ways to Create Your Sustainable Home series. In Episode 401 we covered orientation, and understanding how the sun moves across your site and how positioning your home to work with that movement can transform its comfort, help it feel amazing to live in day-to-day, and reduce its energy use and requirements for artificial heating and cooling. In this Episode, we are covering another natural asset that is freely available on your site, and that’s breezes. [For all resources mentioned in this podcast and a free, downloadable PDF transcript, head to www.undercoverarchitect.com/402 ] Natural ventilation can be one of the most effective, lowest-cost strategies for keeping a home comfortable. And like orientation, it works best when it is designed in from the beginning, because the floor plan layout, window types, and building form all determine how well a home is able to ventilate naturally. In this episode, I’ll take you through why breezes matter so much for both comfort and sustainability, how to understand the specific wind patterns on your site, how to design your home to capture prevailing breezes, and how to…

People in this episode

Host: Amelia Lee

Topics covered

• sustainable home design
• natural ventilation
• breezes and wind
• energy efficiency
• home comfort

Keywords

• sustainable home
• natural ventilation
• breezes
• wind patterns
• energy efficiency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Undercover Architect

Places: www.undercoverarchitect.com/402

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