List of pioneering solar buildings
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- MIT Solar House #1, MassachusettsMassachusettsThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, USA (Hoyt C. HottelHoyt C. HottelHoyt Clarke Hottel was a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. He was an expert on energy, radiant heat transfer, fire, fuels and combustion ....
& others, 1939)- Howard Sloan House, Glenview, Illinois, USA (George Fred KeckGeorge Fred KeckGeorge Fred Keck was an American modernist architect based in Chicago, Illinois. He was later assisted in his practice by his brother William Keck.-Biography:...
, 1940) - Jacobs House II "Solar Hemicycle", near Madison, Wisconsin, USA (Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
, 1944) - Löf House, Boulder, ColoradoColoradoColorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
, USA (George LöfGeorge LofGeorge Oscar Löf was an American engineer and inventor who was best known for his contributions to solar energy research.-Early life:...
, 1945) - Rosenberg House, Tucson, Arizona, USA (Arthur T. BrownArthur T. BrownArthur Thomas Brown was an American architect who is remembered as “Tucson’s pioneer of solar design.” Brown was born in Takio, Missouri, and studied at Ohio State University graduating in 1927. He worked on the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition designing auxiliary buildings and signage...
, 1946) - MIT Solar House #2, USA, (Hoyt C. HottelHoyt C. HottelHoyt Clarke Hottel was a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. He was an expert on energy, radiant heat transfer, fire, fuels and combustion ....
& others, 1947)Solar Energy Applications in Houses, F Jäger, Pergamon Press, ISBN 0-08-027573-7 - Peabody House (Dover Sun House, MIT Solar House #6), Dover, Massachusetts, USA (Eleanor RaymondEleanor RaymondEleanor Raymond was an American architect who built and designed the first occupied, solar-powered house in the United States.-Early life:...
& Maria TelkesMária TelkesMária Telkes was a Hungarian-American scientist and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.Telkes moved to the United States after completing her PhD in physical chemistry in Hungary...
, 1948) - Rose Elementary School, Tucson, Arizona, USA (Arthur T. BrownArthur T. BrownArthur Thomas Brown was an American architect who is remembered as “Tucson’s pioneer of solar design.” Brown was born in Takio, Missouri, and studied at Ohio State University graduating in 1927. He worked on the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition designing auxiliary buildings and signage...
, 1948) - MIT Solar House #3, USA, (Hoyt C. HottelHoyt C. HottelHoyt Clarke Hottel was a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. He was an expert on energy, radiant heat transfer, fire, fuels and combustion ....
& others, 1949) - New Mexico State College House, New MexicoNew MexicoNew Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
, USA (Lawrence Gardenhire, 1953) - Lefever Solar House, PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, USA (HR Lefever, 1954) - Bliss House, Amado, ArizonaArizonaArizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
, USA (Raymond W. Bliss & M. K. Donavan, 1954) - Solar BuildingSolar BuildingThe Solar Building, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was the world's first commercial building to be heated primarily by solar energy. It was built in 1956 to house the engineering firm of Frank Bridgers and Donald Paxton, who were responsible for the heating system design...
, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (Frank Bridgers & Don Paxton, 1956) - University of Toronto House, TorontoTorontoToronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
(EA Allcut, 1956) - Solar House, TokyoTokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
(Masanosuke Yanagimachi, 1956) - Solar House, BristolBristolBristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
, United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
(L Gardner, 1956) - Curtis House, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom (Edward JW Curtis, 1956)
- Löf House, Denver, Colorado, USA (James M. Hunter & George LöfGeorge LofGeorge Oscar Löf was an American engineer and inventor who was best known for his contributions to solar energy research.-Early life:...
, 1957) - AFASE "Living With the Sun" House, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (Peter Lee, Robert L. Bliss & John Yellott, 1958)
- MIT Solar House #4, USA (Hoyt C. HottelHoyt C. HottelHoyt Clarke Hottel was a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. He was an expert on energy, radiant heat transfer, fire, fuels and combustion ....
& others, 1958) - Solar House, CasablancaCasablancaCasablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Grand Casablanca region.Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port. It is also the biggest city in the Maghreb. The 2004 census recorded a population of 2,949,805 in the prefecture...
, MoroccoMoroccoMorocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
(CM Shaw & Associates, 1958) - Solar House, Nagoya, Japan (Masanosuke Yanagimachi, 1958)
- Princeton University House, New JerseyNew JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, USA (Aladar Olgyay, 1959) - Thomason Solar House "Solaris" #1, Washington D.C.Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, USA, (Harry Thomason, 1959) - Passive Solar House, Odeillo, FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, (Félix TrombeFélix TrombeFelix Trombe was a French engineer.He is best known for his pioneering work in passive solar building design with the Trombe wall, which bears his name.- Mont-Louis Solar Furnace :...
& Jacques Michel, 1967) - Steve Baer House, Corrales, New Mexico, USA (Steve BaerSteve BaerSteve Baer is an American inventor and solar and residential designer. Baer has served on the board of directors of the U.S. Section of the International Solar Energy Society, and on the board of the New Mexico Solar Energy Association. He is the Founder, Chairman of the Board, President, and...
, 1971) - Skytherm House, Atascadero, California, USA (Harold R. Hay, 1973)
- First Zero Energy Design® U.S. Department Of Energy supported home 1979
- Saunders Shrewsbury House, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA (Norman B. Saunders, 1981)
- IEA Task 13 Solar Low Energy BuildingsIEA Solar Heating & Cooling Implementing Agreement Task 13IEA Solar Heating & Cooling Implementing Agreement - Task 13 was an international effort organised by one of the International Energy Agency's Implementing Agreements to build several solar low-energy houses. This took place between 1989 and 1993...
(various, 1989) - Passive HousePassive houseThe term passive house refers to the rigorous, voluntary, Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling. A similar standard, MINERGIE-P, is used in...
s in DarmstadtDarmstadtDarmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, (Bott, Ridder & Westermeyer, 1990) - HeliotropeHeliotrope (building)Built originally in 1994 as the private residence and special project of Rolf Disch, the Heliotrope is a one-of-a-kind design. The Heliotrope in Freiburg was the first building in the world to create more energy than it uses, of which is entirely renewable, emissions free and CO2 neutral...
, First PlusEnergyPlusEnergyPlusEnergy is a coined concept developed by Rolf Disch that indicates a structure’s extreme energy efficiency so that it holds a positive energy balance, actually producing more energy than it uses. With the completion of his private residence, the Heliotrope, in 1994, Disch had created the first...
building worldwide - first to create more energy than it uses. (Rolf DischRolf DischRolf Disch is a German architect, solar energy pioneer and environmental activist who has contributed greatly to the advancement and efficiency of solar architecture internationally...
, 1994)http://www.rolfdisch.comRolf Disch Solar ArchitectureRolf Disch Solar ArchitectureRolf Disch Solar Architecture, creators of the Heliotrope as well as several other visionary green building projects, is based in the solar city Freiburg, Germany. Led by solar pioneer Rolf Disch, who has been building with the sun for more than 40 years, this architecture office's prolific...
- Architect's website] - The Druk White Lotus SchoolThe Druk White Lotus SchoolThe Druk White Lotus School is located in Shey, Ladakh, in northern India.The school was started at the request of the people of Ladakh who wanted a school that would help maintain their rich cultural traditions, based on Tibetan Buddhism, while equipping their children for a life in the 21st...
in LadakhLadakhLadakh is a region of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state of the Republic of India. It lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent...
, IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, (World Architecture Awards, 2002) - 31 Tannery Project - First Net Zero Electric Commercial Building in the United States31 Tannery ProjectThe 31 Tannery Project, located in Branchburg, New Jersey, serves as the corporate headquarters for Ferreira Construction, the Ferreira Group, and Noveda Technologies. The office and shop building was constructed in 2006 and is the 1st building in the state of New Jersey to meet...
(various, 2006) - Sun ShipSun Ship (building)The Sun Ship is a large integrated office/retail building designed by architect Rolf Disch and located in Freiburg directly next to the Solar Settlement by the same designer. It uses 60,000 sq. ft. for retail, commercial and residential space....
, First PlusEnergyPlusEnergyPlusEnergy is a coined concept developed by Rolf Disch that indicates a structure’s extreme energy efficiency so that it holds a positive energy balance, actually producing more energy than it uses. With the completion of his private residence, the Heliotrope, in 1994, Disch had created the first...
commercial building worldwide - first retail & commercial building to create more energy than it uses. (Rolf DischRolf DischRolf Disch is a German architect, solar energy pioneer and environmental activist who has contributed greatly to the advancement and efficiency of solar architecture internationally...
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See also
- Passive solar building designPassive solar building designIn passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, and distribute solar energy in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer...
- History of passive solar building designHistory of passive solar building design-Pre-modern History:The techniques of passive solar building design were practiced for thousands of years, by necessity, before the advent of mechanical heating and cooling. It has remained a traditional part of vernacular architecture in many countries...
- Passive housePassive houseThe term passive house refers to the rigorous, voluntary, Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling. A similar standard, MINERGIE-P, is used in...
- Active solarActive solarActive solar technologies are employed to convert solar energy into another more useful form of energy. This would normally be a conversion to heat or electrical energy. Inside a building this energy would be used for heating, cooling, or off-setting other energy use or costs. Active solar uses...
- Low-energy houseLow-energy houseA low-energy house is any type of house that from design, technologies and building products uses less energy, from any source, than a traditional or average contemporary house...
- Zero energy buildingZero energy buildingA zero-energy building, also known as a zero net energy building, Net-Zero Energy Building , or Net Zero Building, is a popular term to describe a building with zero net energy consumption and zero carbon emissions annually. Zero energy buildings can be independent from the energy grid supply...
- Energy-plus-houseEnergy-plus-houseAn energy-plus-house produces more energy from renewable energy sources, over the course of a year, than it imports from external sources. This is achieved using a combination of microgeneration technology and low-energy building techniques, such as: passive solar building design, insulation and...
- Sustainable developmentSustainable developmentSustainable development is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come...
- Heliotrope (building)Heliotrope (building)Built originally in 1994 as the private residence and special project of Rolf Disch, the Heliotrope is a one-of-a-kind design. The Heliotrope in Freiburg was the first building in the world to create more energy than it uses, of which is entirely renewable, emissions free and CO2 neutral...
- Sun Ship (building)Sun Ship (building)The Sun Ship is a large integrated office/retail building designed by architect Rolf Disch and located in Freiburg directly next to the Solar Settlement by the same designer. It uses 60,000 sq. ft. for retail, commercial and residential space....
- PlusEnergyPlusEnergyPlusEnergy is a coined concept developed by Rolf Disch that indicates a structure’s extreme energy efficiency so that it holds a positive energy balance, actually producing more energy than it uses. With the completion of his private residence, the Heliotrope, in 1994, Disch had created the first...
- Rolf Disch Solar ArchitectureRolf Disch Solar ArchitectureRolf Disch Solar Architecture, creators of the Heliotrope as well as several other visionary green building projects, is based in the solar city Freiburg, Germany. Led by solar pioneer Rolf Disch, who has been building with the sun for more than 40 years, this architecture office's prolific...
- Howard Sloan House, Glenview, Illinois, USA (George Fred Keck