Passive solar

PASSIVE SOLAR ARCHITECTURE INTRODUCTION:1 The last two decade has witnessed a severe energy crisis in developing countries especially during summer season primarily due to cooling load requirements of buildings. The energy consumption in buildings is quite high and is expected to further increase because of improving standards of life and increasing world population. Air conditioning use has increasingly penetrated the market during the last few years and greatly contributes in the upsurge of

Solar power is the energy that is retrieved from the sun that is transformed into thermal or electrical energy. It is known to being one of the cleanest and abundant renewable energy source available. Solar energy can be utilized in many forms for instance, photovoltaics (known as solar electric) solar heating and cooling concentrating solar power (typically built at utility scale), and passive solar. (About Solar Energy. n.d.). Two most common ways solar energy is adapted into being useful are

Passive solar heating-The principle of passive solar heating is based on the collection of short-wave solar radiation in (building) mass that in return disperses long-wave heat radiation that can be used for space heating. Earth-coupling-The general idea behind earth-coupling is to take advantage of the earth’s large thermal storage capacity. Ground temperatures are quite stable at relatively small depths and are quite similar to the local annual average ambient temperature. Near the surface ground

Ancient Solar Architecture Passive solar design and architecture may seem like a distant dream in our fast paced modern world, but in reality it’s more of a modern revival of a style of energy efficient building that has been around for millennia. What once seemed to be common sense ideas for designing a house that could both keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter has somehow been forgotten since we started to overuse the planet’s resources on our own comforts. When heating a house

Solar Energy Why do we build passive solar homes? Most people familiar with the subject of alternative and renewable energies would reply with a variation of many answers to this question. “To act locally in an ever expanding global market.” “The solar panels or photovoltaics will pay for themselves in a given amount of time depending on the system implemented.” “I would build a passive solar house to take myself entirely off the grid.” These answers seem to be common when it comes

The building envelope is the building shell or enclosure that separates the interior of a building with the outdoor environment. This physical separator serves as an important component to maintain a comfortable and healthy indoor environment by transferring the air, water, heat, light and noise. The components of an envelope typically include walls, fenestration, floors, roof and doors with additional parts such as thermal insulation and shading devices. As discussed above, the climate is an important

unwarranted (groundless) or the vice versa of it being forced up through the ground. Energy principles were a relatively new idea in the 1970s where Herzog implemented the use of the triangular shape of the house that is designed to collect free solar energy, which is later used to heat the house. Herzog used ‘environmental responsive architecture’ to integrate energy saving features into the home. Also many architects would argue that the principles of creating a house like this uses the principles

Analysis of development of solar architecture in China: How has modern architecture been redefined by this and Could it be the key factor in build a non-renewable energy free generation? Introduction In the past century, our society had changed rapidly due to varieties of newly found awareness such as the concept of global warming and shortage of our finite power supply. These awarenesses caused us to adapt and develop new techniques in order to survive. One of the many things that had been changed

As time moves forward, the design for better and more sophisticated envelope buildings will continue to be important at all the levels of construction. Basically a building envelope is the separation between the interior and the exterior environment with the inclusion of air, light, heat, water and noise transfer resistances. The building envelope acts as a thermal barrier, because it regulates the temperature of the inside, while the outside temperature can be different. Having a great envelope

Introduction Passive and eco-friendly housing is becoming increasingly popular, and as more and more structures arise, learning provides scope for innovation, further cost saving and optimization. The rise of passive housing could have a possible impact on Global warming, an increasingly important topic, as housing contributes vastly to the cause: in 2009 buildings accounted for 43% of all the UK’s carbon emissions (gov.uk). Therefore, the UK Government aimed to reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emission