Hua Hin Forum

Good evening all I have searched the forum for an answer to my questions before posting this. My apologies if they have been answered elsewhere. My wife owns some land (she holds the title) on which she built a house for her mother and brother to stay in. When registering the tabien she thought it p...

Great post Jaime :D I thought all my birthdays had come at once..well actually they had as it was also my birthday on the 24th ;) A really good bit of research and very interesting. I shall follow up on those references you made to such buildings in Malaysia and Surubaya. I believe a similar constru...

Thanks for the vote of confidence Jaime but my knowledge on this topic is only what I have gleaned through research not personal experience so it is largely academic. It is interesting that your own experience seems to indicate that the traditional architecture may not be as effective as some modern...

Please excuse my ignorance on this topic (I'm not a builder) but as I understand it the type of construction that you are recommending (being the use of thermal mass to keep houses cool) simply doesn't work in the tropics due to the high diurnal temperatures, i.e. mass will work if the temperatures ...