My place has a loft that you get to with a ladder. I've completely transformed it into the most comfortable hideaway from the outside and its utter perfection right now.
Key word being right now. Because it the summer, its basically like I lose an entire room to heat. The AC is ingeniously positioned at a lower point than the loft itself and so cold air has basically no chance of getting there.
I do have an electric fan, but unless it hits me directly, the ambient temperature is far, far too hot to sleep in comfortably. There is only one tiny little window up here, and aside from that, no other ventilation spots.
I was thinking of making a crazy daisychained fan system that would either bring the air into the loft or out of it. But before doing anything crazy I figured there must be a simpler answer. Or some way to passively cool the space. I'm not a physicist unfortunately.
If anyone has come up with something to remedy this issue please let me know.
by patheticorganic