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The living room, photo taken near the fireplace and looking north towards Pages’ mill brook. Large sliding glass mahogany panel systems.

From what I can tell, the house tends to get a fair amount of breeze from the south due to the lay of the land. The south facing glass has more sections that open – so the house is asymmetric in terms of volume and location of openings – my thinking during the design phase is that this might induce a venturi effect when the wind is not blowing strongly – in other words, it will act like a wind sock in low wind speed conditions – the large opening moving to a small. This should generate a compression acceleration of the air speed, creating a proverbial “ahhh – a nice breeze” on day that would normally be considered low wind or even stuffy.

It will be interesting to see if it actually works out that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturi_effect

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