Having an aluminium glass veranda will give your home a lot of style and a wonderful feature to enjoy in warm weather. But it can also provide a benefit that has been enjoyed by homes all over the world.

You don’t need to have travelled far to know that architectural styles and materials have varied widely over time and between places. However, some features can be found in homes all over the world, with verandas being a case in point.

Indeed, the word Veranda has a very cosmopolitan origin:

• The word was first recorded in the early 19^th century in India, in the form of the Hindi word Varanda, which became commonly used in Anglo-Indian terminology.
• The word was believed to have been adopted in Hindi from the Portuguese Varanda, meaning a “long balcony or terrace”.
• Other possible influences include Spanish, through the word ‘Baranda’, meaning barrier, or the Latin Barra, meaning bar. 
• However, verandas are not simply an Indian thing subsequently popularised by colonial powers. They have a genuine appeal because of their passive heating benefits.

How Do Verandas Help Control The Temperature In Summer?

This point was highlighted in a video on the topic by Archi Notes, which reflected on the fact that Verandas appeared independently in different cultures and in homes built from varied materials.

It noted that they became less popular in some Western countries as air conditioning arrived, but verandas are now coming back as an energy-saving natural cooling system that is now well understood by science:

• The roof shades the windows from direct sunlight, reducing heat transmission
• Shade also reduces the warming of the walls
• The edges of the veranda allow warm air to rise and escape and pull in cool air
• This also allows heat to escape upwards at night

Our aluminium glass verandas come with tinted roof glass, so they don’t block the shade as much as a solid roof, but that is reasonable for a climate that, although warming, is still much cooler than the tropics.

However, it still enables you to enjoy a cooler microclimate on hot days, while also offering shelter when the rain does arrive, making it ideal for a modern British home by combining style and practicality.