Bioclimatic Airflow: Designing for Wind Corridors

Energy grids in Costa Rica's coastal developments are under constant strain, and constant AC operation is both expensive and unsustainable. Bioclimatic architecture offers an alternative: designing homes that work in harmony with regional weather patterns.

By studying local prevailing winds (offshore breezes during the night and onshore sea breezes during the day), we layout spaces with varying wall heights and open apertures to create natural pressure differentials (the Venturi effect). This drives warm air upward and draws cool air through low-level openings.

Furthermore, roof overhang extensions are calculated to shade walls during high-radiation angles while allowing daylight transmission, reducing passive heat transfer through structural walls.