Starboard Solar HousePaul Shippee, Designer |
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This award-winning, 1550 s.f. design by Colorado Sunworks demonstrates
inexpensive solar heating in an attractive conventional format. The type of
passive system used is the Mass Trombe Wall: a 12 inch thick vertical wall of
solid concrete, two stories high. Generous openings allow sunlight to enter
for daytime lighting and provide for a view. The wall stores solar heat passing
through its glass cover. The heat moves slowly through the wall reaching the
interior surface in the evening. Warmth then radiates to the rooms as needed.
At sundown, a self-inflating, reflective thermal curtain of five layers lowers
itself automatically between the glass and the wall, insulating against long
cold winter nights. The house is 85% solar-heated. The 2-story single-glass
wall is framed with steel rectangular tube columns for extra structural strength
against the wind. All 3 upstairs bedrooms open onto a view down to the 1st floor,
which is nice enough perhaps in itself but the main purpose is to allow mild
solar heat from the Trombe wall to rise into the bedrooms, then return downstairs
via the cooler north side stairway, a natural convection loop. First
Floor Second
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