Discover how to reach peak energetic performance by making the most out of architectural design
Are you looking to level up your architectural design? Would you like to optimize your building’s performance and discover how to create spaces that feel more comfortable and warm?
What you’ll learn
- Easy-to-understand information about the design and application of passive solar systems.
- The main patterns that influence the effectiveness of solar heating.
- Technical information about passive solar design through simple illustrations.
- What passive solar design is and how it relates to sustainability.
- What role the greenhouse effect plays in passive solar design.
- How energy is transfered and stored in a passive solar systems.
- The physical properties you’re looking for in the materials that make up your passive solar design.
- The existent strategies to capture solar radiation and how to implement them.
- How to read solar maps and how this will be useful while creating your design.
- Optimal building shape and interior space distribution for successful passive solar design.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 5 lectures • 18min.
- The thermodynamics to it all –> 3 lectures • 8min.
- Passive design strategies –> 4 lectures • 15min.
- System implementation –> 6 lectures • 17min.
Requirements
- No previous knowledge or experience is needed as everything you need to know is thoroughly explained in the course.
Are you looking to level up your architectural design? Would you like to optimize your building’s performance and discover how to create spaces that feel more comfortable and warm?
Whether you’re a professional or a design enthusiast, this course is ideal for anyone who’s into sustainable architectural design and wants to profoundly understand how to exploit solar design.
Solar radiation is the biggest renewable energy source on Earth and passive solar design shows us how to take full advantage of it without complicated installations, no hardware and barely no additional cost at all.
During this course:
- The different approaches to passive solar design and the indispensable elements needed to build one.
- How heat is transferred and stored in passive solar systems.
- The thermodynamics basics behind passive solar design, such as how we benefit from the greenhouse effect.
- We’ll go through the different passive solar systems and how to adequately implement each one of them.
- Orientation, shape and space distribution tips to boost solar performance.
- We’ll go over some case studies that evidence the energetic and thermal impact successful solar design can have.
Can’t wait to walk you through the everything there is to know about the fundamentals of passive solar design. See you soon!