Creating a Space that breathes.

 Why Ventilation is Important? 

A home could be packed with luxury items to fulfill your relaxation needs and could provide you with technology to help you with your work at home, but good ventilation is what helps you increase the comfort levels and ensure good air quality for you and your family. 

Ventilation is more valuable in the modern homes being built today, than the houses erected in the earlier centuries. The homes created before weren’t perfect works of architecture, as in the material used in building up the walls and roofs were such that they left minor cracks and crevices which indirectly helped the home to breathe in and breathe out. The material used then like, mud, sand, different types of soil, was porous and thus helped the house maintain the process of ventilation fully-fledged. This was an organic way of providing ventilation in your house. But for this, there was a need for a gentle breeze and as we moved forward in time, our materials became sturdier and the breathing space for walls diminished exponentially. The walls that are now erected are raised with a need to provide a solid structure, not ventilation for homes. And this how the need for ventilation arose. It’s a basic necessity while building a home to have proper ventilation or your home would be no different than a gas chamber with the temperatures soaring ever so much every day. 

Ventilation in homes is becoming a very important point of study for architects as homes are being built on every piece of barren land and hence, it's important to provide homes with the proper ways of ventilation to exemplify the comfort levels. 

Traditional ventilation method. 

This is the most traditional way of providing ventilation for homes all across the globe. Here there are no mechanical devices utilized and ventilation is purely based on traditional ways of providing cracks and crevices for the home to breathe. This is natural because it doesn’t require any extra effort by either the architects or by the residents to either spend more or tweak the design of the home. This however is a traditional way to ventilate a home that relies largely on a gentle breeze blowing outside or a significant difference in temperature between both sides of the walls. One of the reasons being, with the aforementioned conditions, a pressure difference is created to circulate the air and create ventilation. For this ventilation method to work, the walls need to have by default cracks and openings which are impossible to achieve with modern materials and building techniques. Today the walls and the roofs are so built, as to not allow any external factor to hinder the lives inside hence no ventilation is a no-go for modern times. 

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Ventilation is manifold in-house systems 

Before we move ahead, let me define ventilation. The word ventilate comes from the Latin word ventilate, and it means to expose to the wind. While this may sound like some creep in a raincoat, the real story is complex. Ventilation is used in many ways when describing how a house works: There’s crawlspace ventilation (often bad), ventilated covering assemblies (good), and roof ventilation (sometimes bad, sometimes good). We’re not talking about that stuff. Here, we’re talking about mechanical ventilation, using fans to blow out old air, suck in the new air, or both which is also known as balanced ventilation. 

Leaky houses are not the answer 

On average, the air in older homes is replaced once every hour because older homes have a built-in ventilating process that’s simple and strong: leaks. The average house has about 3 sq. ft. of holes in it, but leaky ventilation is a pretty bad way to ventilate because it wastes a tremendous amount of energy. One could plaster that 3 ft. of holes with proper equipment, and the work would pay for itself in less than a season. 

Houses are tighter and tightly insulated. Even current framed new houses can be 5 times tighter than the past stock. Many builders and designers are lured to take the Goldilocks approach and to look for that level of leakage that is appropriate, neither too little nor too much. Unfortunately, there is no hole for all seasons, but the best a leaky house can do is waste energy much of the year and be under-ventilated for the rest of the year. 

Won’t the open windows provide the ventilation we need? In principle, yes, but in practice, no. People are pretty bad at sensing exactly how much, how often, and for how long to open the window to provide optimal ventilation. Moreover, noise, dirt, drafts, and creeps in raincoats dissuade people from opening their windows. 

So that is why, we at Shree Balaji Group have engineered residential spaces that allow maximum ventilation which indirectly results into a better lifestyle. All of our projects are Vaastu engineered and majority of the build concept revolves around proper ventilation. 

We at Shree Balaji Group are accustomed to providing nothing but the best to our customers. Luxury, Location & Convenience at your doorstep. If you belong to those who have a luxury niche, the life that will suit you, you can check out the premium luxury apartments in Vadodara|Mehsana|Ahmedabad by the one and only Shree Balaji Group.