Passive Heating

Level_HowLevel_DetailedFoundation_MitigationTopic_Passive designFoundation_Justice & inclusivityTopic_Carbon design
Written By Ioannis Lykouras

PASSIVE RESILIENCE

Recorded by Sofie Pelsmakers, images by Essi Nisonen and Veera Saastamoinen

KEY READINGS

  • Haggard, Ken, David A Bainbridge, and Rachel Aljilani. Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference. London: Routledge

  • Vivienne Brophy and J. Owen Lewis, A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design, Routledge

  • Thorpe, David. Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference. 1st ed. Vol. 1. London: Routledge

  • Pelsmakers, S., Donovan, E., Hoggard, A., Kozminska, U., Designing for the climate emergency, a Guide for Architecture Students, RIBA

  • Nick Baker and Koen Steemers, Healthy Homes: Designing with Light and Air for Sustainability and Wellbeing, RIBA

  • Rosa Urbano Gutierrez and Laura de la Plaza Hidalgo, Elements of Sustainable Architecture, Routledge

  • Lechner, Norbert, and C. Wallace. Heating, Cooling, Lighting : Sustainable Design Methods for Architects. Fourth edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley

  • Huw Heywood, 101 Rules of Thumb for Low Energy Architecture, RIBA

  • Pelsmakers, S.  The Environmental Design Pocketbook, RIBA

  • Kimpian, J., Hartman, H., Pelsmakers, S. Energy, People Buildings: Making Sustainable Architecture Work, RIBA

  • Solar angle (altitude and azimuth) calculation tool, for example: www.suncalc.org

INSPIRATIONAL EXAMPLES

  • HHS architects/Jourda and Gilles Perraudin, Mont-Cenis Academy, Herne, Germany

  • Haworth Tompkins, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, UK

  • Mole Architects – Cavendish House, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Sarah Wigglesworth – Stock Orchard Street, London, UK

  • Milena Karanesheva and Mischa Witzmann, Passive House, Bessancourt, France

PASSIVE HEATING

Passive heating is crucial and desirable in many cold climates and in mild climates in winter time to ensure that thermal comfort is provided with minimal energy use, energy costs and CO2 emissions. This can be provided by capturing the sun’s warmth by good passive solar design (i.e. optimising orientation and window locations) and ensuring that the heat is stored in a well-insulated envelope with good use of thermal mass and passive summer-time cooling strategies to avoid building overheating. Passive heating strategies need to be ‘locked in’ at early stages because it is irreversible over the building’s lifespan.

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