What’s on the Passive Solar poster
9 entries in 2 groups.
Free heat only helps if you can store it and reject it later.
- The moves: Long axis east to west, main glass to the sun, Glazing sized to the room,…
- Ways it goes wrong: Too much glass, so it overheats by March, Mass buried under carpe…
Fabric first: an under-insulated house with a sunspace still loses more heat than the sun brings in.
Questions about the Passive Solar poster
- What’s on the Passive Solar poster?
- 9 entries in 2 groups. Free heat only helps if you can store it and reject it later. The moves: Long axis east to west, main glass to the sun, Glazing sized to the room,…; Ways it goes wrong: Too much glass, so it overheats by March, Mass buried under carpe…. Fabric first: an under-insulated house with a sunspace still loses more heat than the sun brings in.
- Who is the Passive Solar poster for?
- Passive Solar belongs to the Architecture section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning environmental design can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Passive Solar poster?
- Use it in heating-dominated climates. In cooling-dominated ones, most of it reverses. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Passive Solar belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Passive Solar?
- Overheating, Airtightness and Embodied Carbon sit alongside Passive Solar in the Architecture section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.OverheatingAirtightnessEmbodied Carbon
- Is the Passive Solar poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Passive Solar downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Architecture section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Passive Solar poster print at?
- Passive Solar is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Passive Solar loses nothing.Printing guide
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