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re: one way to build a high-performance passive solar house
21 jul 1998
john fulton wrote:
>phxbrd@pop.phnx.uswest.net writes:
:dry air wrote:
:> nick, i hope you just clipped that post from a document you already had.
nope. nice fresh prose. typed every character.
:>relative to the passive solar house - i've always wondered why someone
:>doesn't put up louvers instead of solid roof overhang on the north side
:>of a house.
in the southern hemisphere...
:>if you angled them to match the angle of the winter sun, heat would
:>enter the house when you wanted, but not in the summer....
i've seen them on solar houses, and also on the back windows of sports cars.
"bris-soleil," ie "sun-breaker" in french. norman saunders, pe, has a patent
on a "solar staircase" with horizontal reflectors and vertical glazing.
>surely a better idea would be to plant deciduous trees - leaves in the
>summer and no leaves in the winter! also they look better that louvres!
it's hard to shade a house from high summer sun with trees, and not have
big branches that can fall on the roof. runner beans, maybe, or clematis,
trumpet vines, honeysuckle, grapes, and so on. or some gaily decorated
greenhouse shadecloth.
nick
in my country, progress in love follows progress in architecture.
first we had jalousies, then we had louvers.
bertle lucas, harbormaster, port au spain, trinidad.
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