The covid-19 pandemic has reoriented our way of living during the last two years of at-home life. The prolonged stay-at-home hours inspire the home dwellers to improve their home environment to make it more aesthetically pleasing and functionally efficient. The work-from-home phenomenon and spending long hours at one place has further revised the importance of a comfortable interior setting. People have naturally started channelling their energies into livening up their surroundings and now take a keen interest in enhancing the spatial quality of the spaces they spend most of their time in.
Owing to this context, architects and designers can opt for a more focused approach towards optimising the prevalence and usage of natural daylight and ventilation in spaces. Directing the openings towards the N-E direction can ensure an open breezeway into the built volume, orienting the kitchen in the S-E can reward the mundane chores of the dawn with the refreshing morning sunlight, and locating the bedroom in the S-W can bring in the warmth of the afternoon golden sun, all such conscious considerations can come handy while devising a well-ventilated home. Furthermore, strategising the location of the openings while being utmost considerate of the sun path and the wind direction brings down the operational costs of mechanical temperature control and indoor lightings and enables the design to assume an elevated spatial identity.
A well-ventilated home allows the home dweller to engage with the natural environment by weaving the carved spaces into the surrounding context in a meaningful way; and also curates a healthy living experience with its calming spatial elements filled with naturally refreshing air.