ZED Floor Plan, Passive Solar Thermal Buffer Zone
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Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects $41.72 One of the leading references on the design of a building’s environmental controls has just gotten better. For years, Heating, Cooling, Lighting has supplied architects and students with the strategies needed for initial design decisions for building systems. The book looks at how to design the form of the building itself to take advantage of natural heating, cooling, and lighting and how to best … |
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The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling $16.94 Passive solar heating and passive cooling—approaches known as natural conditioning—provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really understand the principles involved. Now Dan Chiras, author of the popular book “The Natural House,… |
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Passive Solar House: The Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your Home $22.37 Revised and Expanded Edition—Includes CD-ROM with Custom Design Software For the past ten years The Passive Solar House has offered proven techniques for building homes that heat and cool themselves, using readily available materials and methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourself homeowners. True to this innovative, straightforward approach, the new edition of th… |
