Intro:

1. Passive solar design uses carefully designed

overhangs and reflective coatings on windows, exterior
walls, and roofs to provide comfort during the cooling
season.
2. Passive solar design takes advantage of a building’s
site, climate, and materials to minimize energy use.
3. well-designed passive solar home reduces heating
and cooling loads through energy-efficiency strategies,
which means lower heating and cooling costs. Using
passive solar design to heat and cool your home can be
both environmentally friendly and cost effective.
Basics:
1. A passive solar home collects heat as the sun shines
through south-facing windows and retains it in
materials that store heat, known as thermal mass.
2. To be effective, a passive solar home needs some
basic elements that work together:

(A) Properly oriented windows

(B) Thermal mass
(C) Distribution mechanisms
(D) Control strategies.
Things to be considered :
1. Before adding solar features to your new or existing
home, consider also implementing energy-efficient
home design. A home energy audit is always a great
place to start.
2. A portion of the south side of your house must have
an unobstructed “view” of the sun in a new passive
solar home.
3.Consider possible future uses of the land to the south
of your site—small trees become tall trees, and a
future multi-story building can block your home’s
access to the sun.
4. In some areas, zoning or other land-use regulations
protect landowners’ solar access. If solar access isn’t
protected in your region, look for a lot that is deep
from north to south and place the house on the north
end of the lot.

Basic elements :
1. Aperture/ collector –
2. Absorber- The hard darkened surface of the storage
elements . the surface, which could be masonry wall
floor or water container sits in the direct path of
sunlight hitting the surface is absorded as heat .
3. Thermal mass- materials that retain or store the
heat produced by sunlight. While the absorber is an
exposed surface the thermal mass is the material
below and behind this surface
4. Distribution – method by which solar heat circulates
from the collection and storage point to different area
of the house a strictly passive design will use the three
natural heat transfer modes conduction convection
and radiation exclusively in some application fans ducts
and blowers may be used to used to distribute the
heat through the house .
5. Control- Roof overhangs can be used to shade the
aperture area during summer months. other elements
that control under and or overheating include
electronic sensing device such as a differential
thermostat that signals a fan to turn on operable vents
and dampers that allows or restrict heat flow low
emissivity blinds and awning.
Absorber

Distribution
 Thermal mass

Control
Direct gain and Indirect gain
Trombe wall
Passive cooling
Passive Technologies
1. Shading system
2. Ventilation
3. Solar chimney
4. Thermal mass
5. Wind towers
6. Courtyard effect
7. Earth air tunnel