High Ceilings and Transoms: Heat Rises

A colonial room with a high ceiling. The clear height is 3.6 meters or more, with a white panel ceiling complemented by dark exposed wooden beams; above the door is a horizontal transom window, which can be an operable louver or a fixed wooden grille, allowing hot air to flow out from the top of the room even when the door is closed. The upper part of the wall therefore has large blank spaces. Avoid: lowering the ceiling, making the space above the door a solid wall, using a suspended ceiling to reduce height, having the beams covered and invisible.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個天花很高的殖民房間。淨高達三米六以上,天花是白色的板材配深色的外露木樑;門的上方有一道橫向的氣窗,是可以開闔的百葉或固定的木格柵,讓熱空氣在門關著的時候還能從房間頂部流出去。牆面因此上半段是大片的空白。避免:把天花壓低、在門上方做成實心的牆、使用吊頂把高度吃掉、讓樑被包覆起來看不見。