Passive cooling

Project: Three Trees Location: Eagle Rock, California Large rocks squeezed into together by 'wood shelves' insulate the South face of the house. The rocks absorb the heat during the day lowering the solar gain. At night the rocks give heat back into into the air as the temperature outside drops. The rock wall and the desert climate work in concert to passively cool the house. Jeremy Levine Design www.jeremylevine.com

Passive cooling systems are a type of building design that uses natural processes to cool a building without the use of mechanical systems.

The ancients used passive cooling to maintain internal comfort when outside temperatures soared--long before the invention of air conditioni...

One of the best ways to create a perfect home is to create it with respect to the natural elements acting up around it, good architecture exists in harmony with nature. Passive Cooling does not only give user comfort, but it also saves energy making the house sustainable. There are a lot of passive cooling techniques but here are some that can be applied to your future home in the tropics.

The principle of canadian wells is to circulate the outside air in pipes buried at a depth where the ground temperature is almost stable.

techniques used for a more sustainable cooling system than the typical air conditioning

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