I’ve been racking my brain lately thinking of what are good methods to increase internal airflow in a house with few windows, all facing the wrong direction to catch wind. What are your ideas?

Edit: Breaking a wall to make more windows isn’t an option.

  • Gabu@lemmy.mlOP
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    7 months ago

    It’s an European style long, tall and thin house with wonky internal geometry. All windows face the street, parallel to the wind, at different heights. That’s what gives me the most trouble - getting any air flow to effectively make a C curve.

    can you construct a vertical awning (if I can call it that) to catch the wind?

    I thought about it, but it seems like it’d only make things worse by creating an even bigger region with stagnant air in front of the windows, unless I were to invade the street (which is highly illegal, for obvious reasons).

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        7 months ago

        There is literally zero space between the front and the street?

        The opposite - there’s too much space, with buildings on both sides. Think a room as tall as the house in front of it, but with the street-facing wall removed.

        • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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          7 months ago

          So your neighbour’s houses are sticking out further? Well you’re probably going to have to rely on fans then. And the rolling screen door. Place one fan outside the door pointed into the house. On the other side place it inside the house and pointed out.