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Passive solar architecture is a design strategy that optimizes a building’s energy efficiency and long-term sustainability. By relying on a building site’s solar orientation and climate ...
Looking at the published advice on housing design in the 1940s and 1950s, it's clear passive solar design, small home sizes and climate-responsive architecture were topics of interest.
This concept ensures optimum sustainability and comfort through passive design strategies such as double glazing, thermal mass, stack effect, etc.A huge benefit of passive ...
From a rainwater collection system to passive solar principles, this home utilizes green design through and through. Get inspired for your next sustainable project.
There are some basic building principles that, when applied correctly, can greatly reduce the energy required to keep a home (or any building) warm in winter and cool in summer. Once applied ...
If people realised that passive solar design is not expensive to build, can be contemporary and stylish, fast to construct and, perhaps most importantly, completely eliminate heating and cooling ...
Comfort in Context is a contemporary home that uses passive design to reduce solar gain and stay cool. Check out the design and its gorgeous surroundings.
ACT laws put passive solar homes in the shade. By Phillip Thomson. January 12, 2014 ...
A midcentury house in Olympia Fields designed by passive-solar pioneers Keck & Keck in 1954 is coming on the market for the first time in nearly three decades. Terry Debruin is asking $399,000 for ...
Passive houses, much more common in Europe than in the United States, are very well-insulated, virtually airtight buildings heated primarily by passive solar and internal heat gains.