Highlighting the Sustainable, Renewable and Green Building Technologies of Passive (and Active!) Solar Design
The combined team of Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology forged DALE, the Dynamic Augmented Living Environment. This team creates ingenious homes that shine in brilliant creativity.
Stevens Institute of Technology designs and builds an L-shaped Ecohabitat.
Santa Clara University built a house that spaciously radiates toward the sun. Santa Clara received a 1st place in both Comfort Zone and Entertainment, tied for first in Energy Balance, 4th place in Appliances and 5th in Engineering.
Middlebury College returns to the 2013 Solar Decathlon after participating in the 2011 Solar Decathlon with Self-Reliance.
The desolate, long drive between Albuquerque, NM and Denver, CO, gives a person an appreciation for any interesting objects to look at. It was a pleasant surprise to find a brilliant passive solar rest stop outside of Colorado City, Colorado.
If you’re ever driving along I-70 in Colorado, you might see some spry solar flowers. Located on a somewhat desolate stretch of Interstate 70 in Western Colorado, the photovoltaic flowers are a welcome sight.
The dog days of summer are upon us.
It’s hot.
Yet well-built passive solar houses are cool.
The summer solstice is significant to passive solar building because they are built to take advantage of the sun’s predictable path through the sky.
This helps them to stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
A passive solar hot air heater uses the heat from the winter sun to heat indoor living spaces.
If the solar heater is positioned in a certain way, it will not receive any summer sun.
In the high mountain areas near Crestone, Colorado, a gardener experimented with growing vegetables in a passive solar cold frame, and as a control, also planted in a greenhouse.
