Traditional dwellings used very direct methods to deal with these problems: "first avoid, then block." Professor Lin Sheng-feng explains that the most common method was for traditional courtyard farmhouses to be surrounded by a "green wall" of bamboo planted as a windbreak. Later, "typhoon shutters" were developed: thick wooden boards or metal plates which could be hung up over windows.
傳統的民居處理這些問題時很直接，「先避開、再擋」，林盛豐老師解釋說，最常見的就是合院農舍，在四周栽種碧竹「綠圍」擋風；後來又發展出以可裝卸的粗木護板或鐵板當窗扇的「防颱板」。