Students can build
the new passive solar design they suggested in their performance task to determine if they improved their design.
Not exact matches
Peter Olorenshaw has been developing his passion for
passive solar design for over 21 years in Nelson, one of
New Zealand's sunniest spots.
Darryl believes that the natural ventilation of
passive solar design is not mutually exclusive to the
design of
Passive House homes in
New Zealand.
At the same time, they do not really look alike as we
designed the
new home also with an eye on
passive solar heat gains, views, daylighting and privacy in mind.
Yet builders are installing air conditioning in
new houses that ignore every single
passive design principle (along with
solar panels pointing west to add meaningless green bling).
So how will future green buildings look and perform if the relevance of
passive solar design wanes in the face of
new green building tech?
His group previously worked with Parsons the
New School for
Design to build a two - unit
passive home that began as Parsons's Empowerhouse entry in the Department of Energy's 2011
Solar Decathlon.