Passive Solar House Design: Resilient Building Design Principles for Climate Extremes

In this video, Christina explains the properties of Resilient Building Design. Watch this presentation if you are designing a new custom home and are interested in eco-friendly houses, sustainable materials, and natural buildings. Resilient architecture and design solutions are especially important in changing and unexpected circumstances. With climate change, we are witnessing more extremes. DIY owner-builders may find this video helpful as well as off-Grid property owners or homesteaders.

In this video Christina talks about:
- Passive Heating and Cooling in a Solar House Design
- Solar Gain and Glazing
- Thermal Mass ('Glass and Mass')
- Overhangs and Sun Angle Calculations
- Climate Specific Design
- Passive house vs Passive Solar

"A design reference for ecological architecture. Discover simple and effective ways to make your homes more efficient and economical! Learn about the importance of strategic window placement, thermal mass utilization, and insulation for efficient heating. Explore the significance of properly sized overhangs, utilizing trees or adjacent structures for cooling, and harnessing prevailing winds for ventilation in these architectural concept diagrams. Don't miss out on these valuable tips for your next building project!""

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[LuminairPrime]

Great drawings and explanations! I agree that 1) being able to open the windows and have the prevailing winds cool the house, and 2) have the overhangs cool the house from the sun, are clearly hugely powerful and underappreciated climate control methods in construction. I agree that if something broke in an air-tight house without these features, it would just become an oven. Keep sharing, and thank you for the good work!

[NGILNFID]

This is brilliant! Thank you for breaking this down. I primarily work on Passive Houses and you are absolutely right that it does not allow you to utilize local and natural materials as much. I wish that all builders and architects could watch this!

[grantcrawford]

To be clear, passive house takes into consideration the local climate, sun angles and all of these things. And if your incredibly lower energy HRV stops working, you're not SooL, you open a window. And you still have an incredibly performing home.

It's not one or the other. Passive House incorporates many or most passive solar concepts. Passive solar incorporating passive house concepts will perform better (even without getting certification).

I don't get why some people have to treat it like a competition.

[UndercoverArchitect]

You explained passive house really well! Thanks for that!

[solarei.architecture]

Good detailed overview of key concepts for designing a successful home. Go passive solar design!

[xikano]

I'm really digging the chillhop vibe.

[ericpeterson]

Good work. Great presentation. Starting an ecovillage in Buffalo NY. Nice to have resources like this to explain design principles to folks. Keep it up.

[nancysmith]

Thanks for your post - just starting out my research and happy I stumbled across your channel! Well done.

[birdie]

Very useful information for our new house and environment.

[packgoat]

WOW! I am super grateful for this information. Thank you so much as I am building houses for our off grid community in portugal. Thank you so much!

[leeannjensen]

Thank you for sharing! I love your explanations and the presentation of passive solar. It's what I want in a house but haven't been able to put my finger on.

[brucejankowitz]

great info, thanks, I made sure I saved your diagrams and plan to put into use in my next home

[davidegan]

This is the EXACT kind of content and information i was looking for, and you delivered it in a very easy to understand and fluid way!

[holmbergfamilyhomestead]

Very good video. Would you consider a video on passive greenhouse. I am building one next year using an old basement wall as a back thermal mass feature. While a specific request, I bet others would be interested. Thanks.

[ecoendeavour]

Great video! I am in the process of designing a passive solar hempcrete home. My designer keeps telling me not to extend the overhang of the roof because he thinks I'll want the direct sunlight into my clerestory windows during summer to bring in more light and that I can simply lower shades or invest in windows with internal shades if I end up not wanting the sunlight into my living space. As my exterior walls of the house will be 12' thick hempcrete walls, will overheating through these clerestory windows in summer not be an issue if I don't extend the roof overhang? I'd love to know your thoughts. The home has an attached sunroom on the south for isolated solar gain.

[stillanemptypocket]

Excellent presentation Christina, good information, clear and concise. Keep going, be consistent and YouTube will eventually reward you. Thank you, John from the UK

[claypunk]

Such a helpful and well-presented video. I think your channel will grow like crazy with insightful content like this,

[paulmaxwell]

I'm really surprised there isn't more interest in building design. Everyone lives in expensive, low-performance homes and complains bitterly about the heating and cooling costs, maintenance, poor air quality etc. My wife and I designed and built a nice, affordable, passive solar off-grid home and all the neighbors laughed. We installed an evacuated-tube water heating system too and have had free hot water for some six or seven years now. Our heating requirements are somewhere between one quarter to one fifth of theirs, and they don't laugh now!

[ryanholzhouser]

Need a better microphone. Background noise is distracting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Love❤

[maryjoaleks]

Background music/noise is ditracting and does not enhance the presentation.