The key to creating an energy-saving home substantially involves designing your house to comply with geographical aspects of your home location. Building materials used should be able to facilitate natural lighting and air circulation. Furniture and decorative stuff should not block wind current and sun light. So, instead of having to turn on electric bulbs and air-conditioners all the time, you could manage to have natural lighting and airflow work for you. Elements of energy-saving concept Located closed to the meridian and in a tropical zone, Thailand sees the sun orbiting from the east to the west with a slight southward bias.
Houses facing north or south tend to better escape the heat caused by sunlight.
Direction of the sun in Thailand nomally rises from the East and orbits on the skew way from the South to the West especially in the winter season. Therefore the west and the south will get the hotest of the radiation in a day. The north and the east will get the sun light only in the morning. Room in this position will not contain much of high tempperature in the afternoon. Direction of the sun 5.