There's a style of house where I am (Queensland, Australia) called the Queenslander [1] - its a timber house, with high ceilings - typically 10 or 12 feet, the

There's a style of house where I am (Queensland, Australia) called the Queenslander [1] - its a timber house, with high ceilings - typically 10 or 12 feet, the walls are tongue and groove timber which is pretty leaky, so any breeze goes through. It works, I've lived in one, my mum still does, without air con, just fans and evaporative coolers for those hot days. Another thing is placing your home facing the right direction - to the north east here to catch the cooling breezes. They don't build them any more - brick and air con is standard now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_(architecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_(architecture)