Passive design strategies

Master 12 passive cooling strategies for hot climates in architecture: Enhance energy efficiency and comfort with smart design choices.

Learn 12 key passive design strategies for cold climates: Optimize building orientation, form, materials, and more for energy efficiency and comfort.

Designing a house in the tropics, should always try to consider and respond to the climate. This design approach is becoming increasingly relevant because of climate change. When designing and building your home in a tropical climate, they are vital principles that you should consider. Strategies include site orientation, solar shading, passive ventilation, construction materials and roof design. These are all principles associated with tropical architecture.

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Strictly defined, the term ‘passive cooling’ applies only to those processes of heat dissipation that will occur naturally, that is without the mediation of mechanical components or energy inputs. The definition encompasses situations where the coupling of spaces and building elements to ambient heat sinks (air, sky, earth and water) by means of natural modes of heat transfer leads to an appreciable cooling effect indoors. However, before taking measures to dissipate unwanted heat, it is…

Very good study on passive cooling, particularly wind flow through a house. From http://www.inive.org/members_area/medias/pdf/Inive%5CIBPSA%5CUFSC6.pdf

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Increase of indoor temperature compared with outdoor temperature is a major concern in modern house design. Occupants suffer from this uncomfortable c…

Image 10 of 27 from gallery of The House of Silence / Natura Futura Arquitectura.

When setting up a greenhouse, one of the first things a gardener needs to decide is whether the greenhouse will be a freestanding or an attached greenhouse. A closer look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of each will give a gardener a better idea of which type of greenhouse will best suit his […]

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