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Originally Posted by satapadak  Yer right about the outdoor room.
Once, just about every Thai house was built up on stilts and the space below was where the living was done. The wind could blow through and cool the wooden sleeping room up top.
I'm living in one of those houses, and like just about every one of them, the downstairs has been blocked up and off. It doesn't keep out the vermin. They like an enclosed place. But I can lock up my appliances.
When you see those houses out in the country, they're way to open for my farang blood. A few hammocks strung up, and grandma asleep in front of the whole world.
I've seen many a restaurant and resort where they were able to keep it open and get privacy with plants and partial walls.
Thailand is too hot to live inside. |
99% of the heat coming in comes from the roof and walls. The wind blowing thru underneath has little to do with cooling upstairs. Though the open, well ventilated, shady space downstairs is certainly a cooler retreat. Hence the reason why Thais often sling hammocks up there to rest in the heat of the day.