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Create A Tropical Home In A Modern Style

For those who live in the tropics, the right house for us to live is a house modern tropical house berasitektur. Among the ways to make homes in the tropics are: First, solve the lighting problem in the afternoon sun made skylights or light opening on the roof and upper walls. Can also be made a variety of window openings and large glass doors, make ruangruang open in the house, either park in the middle of the room or in the back of the house.

Alternatively, can be done using glassblock and stained glass and make a void area of the second floor and first floor with large window openings. That way, the ground floor can be much brighter

It also tries to regulate and direct the direction of the sunlight falling on the building. How to create shadow effects within the room by way of trying to control the direction of light falling through windows or skylights into the building.

Then set the building back and forth in order to get the effect of light & darkness and depth of building facades. Another thing that can be done is to create an opening in the building and its effect on buildings such as doors, windows, skylights, balconies and wooden pergola and lattice below the canopy.

We recommend using a material with the severity of the effects of light such as natural stone, concrete, wood, and glass or metal. Can also do the trick of light effect through the dark building and forth and the depth of the building. Although sunlight is good for health, not that excessive sunlight can not harmful to occupants of the house.
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Because it needs to make a canopy to prevent glare and reduce tempias. If necessary, make a lattice of wooden or iron as a secondary skin or sunshading to reduce excessive sunlight. Or try to make curtains or a horizontal or vertical blinds to regulate the incoming sunlight. It can also make the building does not frontally facing westward but is a bit askew.

To get around the air humidity is high enough, make a window or door openings facing each other with each other. The goal is that there is good air circulation through the system of cross-horizontal or vertical. Or try to put the sunlight into the room directly, either through the wall or through an opening in the roof with a minimum time of one hour in order to avoid moisture.

Next, make the holes the wind well above the sill and the side wall of the upper air circulation in order to become more fluent. Alternatively, create a window of a multifunctional and can be used for two things. So, if homeowners want only light coming in, jalusinya can be opened but the wind did not go in, and vice versa.

Other steps, choose wood that are resistant to decay or termites, or by providing the layer to make it more durable. Finally, the issue of high rainfall, try to drain as quickly as possible rainfall into the soil surface and by choosing the steep slope of the roof.(by :Abi)