Climate and Building Design

Temperate Climate
Hot Dry Climate
Warm Humid Climate
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Climate and Building Design

You'd like to have a comfortable home, save energy and costs, reduce pollution, and protect the environment. But where do you start? Check our quiz to see if your house makes the grade!

The design starting point is the outdoor climate - how can the house modify the ambient conditions, so that indoors is always more comfortable than outdoors? Each climate zone needs a different design approach - (a great house design for Melbourne will be a disaster in Cairns.)

Quiz

Are you in the temperate, warm humid or the hot dry zone?

Click your location on the map.

For simplicity, only temperature and humidity have been used in the criteria for defining these climate zones.