The Architecture of the EquatorThe

The most obvious out-turn of forest in relevance to architecture is tropical hardwood, to be used in almost all construction project in the biggest building scale to the most possible detail of furniture in small houses.These hardwood may refer to any type of wood that grows in a narrow equator band, usually referred to as the tropical zone or torrid zone, delimited in latitude by theTropic of cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at 23°26’12.2” (or 23.43672°) N and theTropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at 23°26’12.2” (or 23.43672°) S, correspond to the axial tilt of the Earth (Rutledge 2011).This particular zone are warm all year with an average of 25 to 35 degree Celsius due to its constant exposure to the sun.The seasons are broken up into two: the wet season and the dry season.