Tag Archives: Solar architecture

Passive solar building system

Passive solar building system is increasingly becoming an independent style of architecture , which is formally in the tradition of classical modernism and its currents and receptions, in the subordination of the design under the appropriateness (form follows function, the sculpture remains in the background) to be assigned to functionalism.…

Passive solar building system

Passive solar building design

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 heating systems, it does not involve…

Passive solar building design

Solar tree

A solar tree is a structure incorporating solar energy technology on a single pillar, like a tree trunk. It may be a solar artwork or a functional power generator. Intent and Context Solar trees are intended to bring visibility to solar technology and to enhance the landscape and architecture they…

Solar tree

Solar shingle

Solar shingles, also called photovoltaic shingles, are solar panels designed to look like and function as conventional roofing materials, such as asphalt shingle or slate, while also producing electricity. Solar shingles are a type of solar energy solution known as building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV). There are several varieties of solar shingles,…

Solar shingle

Annualized geo solar

Annualized geo-solar (AGS) enables passive solar heating in even cold, foggy north temperate areas. It uses the ground under or around a building as thermal mass to heat and cool the building. After a designed, conductive thermal lag of 6 months the heat is returned to, or removed from, the…

Annualized geo solar

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