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Fins
The white fins and roof of the Arthur & Yvonne Boyd Education Centre are designed to push air into the rooms to create cooling cross breezes. In each of the 32 bedrooms, windows can open up to the outdoors in varying levels of exposure. The windows can be opened entirely to allow a full breeze through the room on a hot day, opened entirely but with mosquito screens to keep the bugs out at night, or closed and sealed to trap heat indoors during the winter months. Glenn Murcutt once remarked that a building should have multiple layers of exposure to the outdoors that work much like clothes - they can be taken off or layered on depending on the weather conditions.
Fins
The white fins and roof of the Arthur & Yvonne Boyd Education Centre are designed to push air into the rooms to create cooling cross breezes. In each of the 32 bedrooms, windows can open up to the outdoors in varying levels of exposure. The windows can be opened entirely to allow a full breeze through the room on a hot day, opened entirely but with mosquito screens to keep the bugs out at night, or closed and sealed to trap heat indoors during the winter months. Glenn Murcutt once remarked that a building should have multiple layers of exposure to the outdoors that work much like clothes - they can be taken off or layered on depending on the weather conditions.