Passive Design in Green Architecture

Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings (Colorado USA) The structures contained within these alcoves were mostly blocks of hard sandstone, held together and plastered with adobe mortar. Specific ...more

Germany's Solar Decathlon 2009 SurPLUS House The Team The team is relatively small with only 24 students, mostly architects. But team member Sardika Meyer relates how ...more

An Appalachian House: The Design And Analysis Of A Passive Solar House (Virginia, USA) Overall, the Appalachian House incorporates many features that are considered sustainable. Some examples include the use of local materials ...more

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ArchiPhysics Passive Solar Software (Free)

This program was written to show how different variables affect the indoor temperature of a building.

Awnshade

from Florida Solar Energy Center

Build It Solar

This website provides a selection of references and analysis tools for solar design - books, websites, publications and information on solar ...more

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Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies

Part of the larger education of the Oberlin community aimed to promote the practical skills and analytic abilities necessary to reweave the human ...more

Adobe House in Winter Video

This snippet is an exerpt of a for-sale video by Andrey Shadrov. It is warm, comfortable and ecological to live in adobe house, even in winter, - ...more

Alaska Bioshelter Solar Greenhouse Video (USA)

This guy built, out of the side of an Alaska mountain, a water recycling, self-sustaining shelter. Out of some fairly simple stuff. The goal was ...more

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