I was also reading up on how pipes that are filled with water can be used to also cool houses.
Now read up on how expensive that may be.
Brick, stone and good windows can also help.
Houses built before modern utilities were designed to cool down. For example, in Virginia early homes have an open corridor from front to back for a breeze.
I live in upstate NY where we get a lot of snow and ice build-up. I have always wondered why homes haven’t been designed in a Nordic style, with more sloped roofs and much longer eaves
Every builder I ask shrugs and gives some version of higher cost, no one designs them that way, and they don’t have time to train workers
Everything is cookie-cutter. Its cheaper and faster that way.
“I was also reading up on how pipes that are filled with water can be used to also cool houses.”
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I did that when I started in Hollywood, and my previous apartment did NOT have air conditioning which was a killer during summer time. I would just place water containers around the apt. to cool off the area. My neighbor who catered to studios had at least 100 of those ice plastic containers and I would freeze them and take out 30 at a time.
In Việt Nam many homes are built with very high ceilings and they stay cooler.