Passive cooling architecture

Master 12 passive cooling strategies for hot climates in architecture: Enhance energy efficiency and comfort with smart design choices.

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The ancients used passive cooling to maintain internal comfort when outside temperatures soared--long before the invention of air conditioni...

Image 17 of 19 from gallery of L’Angolo Estate / LEVER Architecture. Plan Details

Why do buildings need to be ventilated?

One of the best ways to create a perfect home is to create it with respect to the natural elements acting up around it, good architecture exists in harmony with nature. Passive Cooling does not only give user comfort, but it also saves energy making the house sustainable. There are a lot of passive cooling techniques but here are some that can be applied to your future home in the tropics.

Using natural circumstances to lessen the need for artificial or mechanical climate control is known as passive design Strategies. This means making the most of natural components by optimizing a building's layout, materials, openings, and orientation, which will ultimately improve environmental comfort. When these techniques are widely used, individual buildings become more ecologically friendly and their overall energy usage is drastically decreased.

The regulation of light and air was a major part of Tropical Space’s brick-forward design for an office space in Ho Chi Minh City.

I live sunny south Florida, where the temperature rarely drops below 60 degrees during the day, and the humidity level in the summer is usually hovering at around 100%. Summers...

techniques used for a more sustainable cooling system than the typical air conditioning