Passive solar home design Any home that collects sunlight — passively or actively — and converts it to energy is considered a "solar home" ...

Even diehard Instagrammers admit it: Sometimes the best design is in what you don’t see. Such is the case with passive solar design, an approach to building that—in a nutshell—uses a house’s site, ...

A passive solar house can naturally keep the interior living spaces a comfortable air temperature without using conventional emissions-spewing HVAC.

The passive-house building standard relies on lots of insulation and intentional design to use as little energy as possible for heating and cooling.

Passive solar heating systems have been around for centuries, since civilizations adapted the design of dwellings to harness the warmth of the sun.

Check out this idyllic home built to stand up to Maine's notoriously frigid winters thanks to tight insulation, solar power and passive house design.

Rancho Mirage Observatory architect Charlie Martin designed the home for the desert environment. The passive solar design cools the home’s interior by 10 to 15 degrees ...

Four basic passive solar design features to use are direct gain windows, solar walls, sunrooms and solar roofs. To attain nearly 100-percent solar, a combination of all these features is needed.

Work on Phase Three C of The Anne M. Lynch Homes at Old Colony, a 55-apartment midrise building in Boston that stands out for its use of Passive House design principles, was recently completed.