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  2. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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    This image shows the characteristics of a Passive Solar home and its benefits. In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. This is called passive solar design because, unlike active solar ...

  3. Double envelope house - Wikipedia

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    Butler's experimental design was a form of isolated passive solar design that incorporated a passive heat distribution system. It attempted to address the problem of unequal distribution of heat that was associated with some direct gain systems. . This phenomenon is observed particularly in designs with inadequate thermal mass, poor cross ...

  4. History of passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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    Sloan then built a number of passive solar houses, and his publicity efforts contributed to a significant "solar house" movement in the 1940s. [8] Frank Lloyd Wright used passive solar principles in some of his designs, most notably in the Jacobs House, built in 1944 in Wisconsin, which was also known as the "Solar Hemicycle" or "Solar Hemicyclo."

  5. Passive house - Wikipedia

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    Passive solar building design and energy-efficient landscaping support passive house energy conservation and can integrate them into a neighborhood and environment. Following passive solar building techniques , where possible buildings are compact in shape to reduce their surface area; principal windows are oriented towards the equator to ...

  6. List of low-energy building techniques - Wikipedia

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    History of passive solar building design; Low-energy house; Passive daylighting; Passive house; Passive solar; Passive solar building design; Quadruple glazing; Solar energy; Superinsulation; Sustainable architecture; Sustainability; Trombe wall; Windcatcher; Zero energy building; Zero heating building

  7. Trombe wall - Wikipedia

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    Today, the Trombe wall continues to serve as an effective strategy of passive solar design. The first well-known example of a Trombe wall system was used in the Trombe house of Odeillo, France in 1967. [13] [3] The black painted wall is constructed of approximately 2 foot thick concrete with an air space and a double glazing on its exterior ...

  8. Earth shelter - Wikipedia

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    Earth sheltering is often combined with solar heating systems. Most commonly, the utilization of passive solar design techniques is used in earth shelters. In most of the Northern Hemisphere, a south-facing structure with the north, east, and west sides covered with earth is the most effective application for passive solar systems. A large ...

  9. Low-energy house - Wikipedia

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    Passive solar building design and energy-efficient landscaping support the low-energy house in conservation and can integrate it into a neighborhood and environment. Following passive solar building techniques , where buildings are compact in shape to reduce surface area and principal windows oriented towards the equator (south in the Northern ...

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