Hot climate = termites, minimize wood and no soft wood.

9 year ago still can't find this for my house

Any one know well a geodome works compered to these ?

I designed my house in tropical Laos solely on this videos recommendation. It all works perfectly.

Thank you for your video

Planning on a house in the hot tropics. This is very helpful! To note, I've learned that our current house in the tropics, it is important that the surrounding surface of the house does not create/keep the heat (like a cemented/paved driveway) and having the breeze carry it through the house.

I lived with quakers when I was in college. They had an attic fan that they would turn on in the evening after opening the windows. It would suck the heat out and pull cooler air in through the open windows. They didn't run it all night but just until the house cooled. Then, in the morning, they closed up the windows. It worked very well!

This is so informative and interesting. Thank you! Are there any significant updates on this information as of 2022?

Great interview thanks!

I didn't know Zac Efron new so much about architecture. Who knew!

A raised house is an absolute must for me. Protect from flooding at all costs.

Build with wooden materials make it cool inside.plant more trees surrounding house.easy as 123 😅

Excellent solution to a project home basic build excellent Edition makes it look after textural designed nice- bricks

Any idea to effectiveness of creating an attic ventilation for tropical (hot) climate house to enable hot air to escape?

what about aircon?

I did it myself with the Woodglut plans. I think this is the best way to find out how to build it.

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I find this very informative mostly because you invited an architect hence we get to appreciate the intricacies of passive design.

This is shit!!

Thank you

I need this cool house to be cyclone proof

Give a simple answer geez

demonstration sucks, dint look professional , the panel edges looks crappy, and using glue ??? screw to the studs is better.............

Good content. Idiotic editing.

Want if there is no sun to absorb ...can then heat be absorbed from the heater rather

light colored roof, optimize areas of glass, good window treatment such as good quality blinds, right amount of thermal mass

A home that is energy efficient save money on utilities. That makes it a better value. If you are going to renovate consider air sealing, super insulation, triple pane windows, solar panels, battery storage and an electric vehicle charger..

Energy efficiency adds value. Saving energy saves money on utilities.

Just put marmer stone and your house stay cool all day

Great tips!!

so annoying. ah

bury a large pipe under ground, deep enough to capture the coolness of that depth .. the depth will be in the range of 10' to 15' deep. connect this cool air pipe to your duct work. now allow the air to flow from the floor across the room to a ceiling register in the attic . this is how the flow is generated, no fan needed. the bigger the house the bigger the diameter pipe needed. and the longer also.... free conditioned air is very possible

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Cherie's use of the revolting idiom "rule of thumb" is disgusting here

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You can’t bend the sun. In the laws of physics that is not.p a true statement. Mirrors work as well as refraction into component frequencies.

The architect looks like he just got out of bed. Show some respect.

How is this lightweight? Is it really made of cement?

Her accent tho

Information was okay. Saying the builder designs for you is like saying that the nurse can perform surgery for less money! If you wouldn’t put your life in danger, don’t risk having a design that could potentially affect your property’s value in the future

the audio is not very good

Well I guess hardiplank might smash if you hit it hard enough but scyon linea is 16 mm thick it cuts and nails like Timber and is hard as . So it’s up to your tastes really and how much you want to maintain your house ...

Or more

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Me and my parents are looking for beach house

I'm in a hot climate but I've lived in the tropics. In wet, hot climates thermal mass isn't as important due to the limited diurnal fluctuation, I didn't realize that. Nonetheless, it would be important to keep thermal mass away from the building on the exterior, too. Here in southern California all the houses have stucco cement jackets over them, to keep the sun's warmth penetrating into the house, into the evening as well as during the day. Backwards. The thermal mass should be inside the envelope and deployed according to location and heat absorption properties. Exterior should reflect away all parts of the light spectrum but especially the low frequency radiant heat, and retain as little (light weight) heat as possible. Someone should experiment with laying a radiant barrier on the ground around the house, where the sun hits. We use rigid insulation for that now, but it too absorbs radiant heat until it's saturated, and then passes it on. A radiant barrier would keep the ground cooler, allowing for evaporative cooling tubes etc., to be placed at less depth and would increase the cooling benefits of any basement air circulation system.

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