Plan a comfortable, energy-efficient home that saves you money on heating and cooling with passive solar house plans and design basics. Passive solar design begins with the simple idea that you ...

Passive Design Solutions. What Passive Design Solutions does that is different from the usual stock plan vendors is they design the house to meet the PHIUS standard.

Now, the first passive house-certified school in New York has opened, and it may just be a sign of things to come.. A passive house school grows in Brooklyn. Architecture Research Office (ARO), in ...

This experimental paint reflects sunlight, emits heat and mimics sweating to cool buildings without air conditioning, even in the tropics.

Airtight and super-insulated, a passive house uses around 90% less energy. When the Canadian engineer Harold Orr and his colleagues began designing an ultra-efficient home in Saskatchewan in the ...

Mumbai-based iStudio Architecture completed Brick House, a curvaceous and organic structure that looks like the picture-perfect yoga retreat in rural India.

Passive House certification is a growing program in the United States and around the world because of peoples concern for the environment and the cost of utility bills.

As climate change and growing energy demands strain global systems, scientists are increasingly turning to passive cooling technologies—ways to cool objects or spaces without using electricity.

For their house to qualify as passive, it couldn't exceed more than 0.6 air changes per hour (ACH). For comparison, a normal house would rack up about 15 to 25ACH.

The house is designed to optimise passive cooling. FR House is one of several projects that CAZA has been working on in the Philippines, including a new building for the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.

Passive cooling is absolutely wonderful when it works and can be quite miserable when it doesn’t. Lorenzo May 22, 2023 04:50 AM The title says “No AC required”.