Tips for How High the Ideal Residential Ceiling?

In designing the architecture of the house, high plapon your dream house depends on several things. In summary the things you need to consider in determining the ceiling height is the climate, the proportion of space / aesthetics, air circulation, and lighting.The architect is generally agreed that there is a trend change in taste whereby homeowners want a higher ceiling of the house. If we look plapon in standard houses built 20-30 years ago ranged between 250-260cm. While modern dwellings today offers high ceilings in the range 280-300cm. Even some of the rooms have high ceilings 4m to 7m in height.

The tendency of modern house with high ceilings just tastes but perhaps not related to comfort and aesthetic design of the house. However, for you who will build or design a house, some basic principles that I have to say might be useful.

1. Climatic Factors

If you look at the houses in cold climates tend to have the ceiling low. In Japan or Europe for example, high-ceiling 2.4 or 2.5 meters are common. The reason is energy savings. The higher the ceiling the higher the heating required.

meanwhile, in coastal areas or hot climates high ceiling allows better air circulation. Some of you may already know that hot air will move upwards. Thus, high ceilings allow air in the room became still cool.

In addition, with a high ceiling allowed sunlight to enter more deeply into all parts of the house. And so the room does not feel damp.So, my advice if you live in a coastal area with hot air that tends to ceiling height should not be less than 280cm, or between 2.8 to 3.2 m. 

Second, the proportions and aestheticsThe architectural design is nothing but talk about the proportion of space. Beautiful design that means proportional. The architecture students generally know that in order to determine the standard ceiling height of a room apply the formula: (length + width) / 2. That is a room-sized 3x4m will look proportional when the ceiling is about (3 +4) / 2 = 3.5 m.Of course this is not a standard mathematical formula for the ideal proportions can be processed through the arrangement of the interior is good. In essence, the bigger the room the higher the ceiling, or ceiling should be higher than the width of the room. Because if not counterbalanced plapon high, a large room will look like a musty hallway.Therefore, if you have a family room large enough, such as 8x5m without barriers, you can create a ceiling up to 6-7m.

Void or LoftWhen you build a house two or more floors, high ceiling will be created automatically when you create a void. That space is left blank on the second floor so the view can be directly pointed at the 2nd floor ceiling.Creation of a high ceiling you could also do with exposing the slope of the roof. That way you can create a beautiful ceiling. At the same time the room will feel more spacious. See Figure 2Voids can also mean an open space with no roof on the house which has only one access from the front. In many houses, your house surrounded by walls on both sides and rear. When this condition is that you get, the presence of voids to be vital either the rear or side of the house. Namely for air circulation and sunlight can get into the house. Covering the entire area with a roof is not recommended. See Figure 3 which shows the location of voids in house size 6 × 15 in a cluster.

When you create a void that is still quite broad, in certain parts you can still make a loft that can be used as a playground or open space hobbies.Impression of light by using appropriate materials and design is open and the glass window plus the ventilation is very important for air circulation equipment