To set the main wall of building hit by the wind directly as a slant to reduce the wind stress.

将建物的平面配置将主要面临风向的墙面，设定为斜面以减少风压力。

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Setting out on an ocean voyage, with water in gourds and pounded tubers tied up in leaves, he would point his canoe into the right slant of wind, and then along a path between a rising star and an opposite, setting one.

ECONOMIST: Mau Piailug