A Trombe wall is used to reduce the use of a building's heating and cooling systems through passive solar design.

When designing for sustainability, passive solar design with water walls for heat storage are rarely used to their full potential.

While researching The Trombe Wall: Low Tech Solar Design Makes A Comeback I stumbled over the work of DesignBuildBLUFF, the principal mission of which is to "design and build safe, sustainable off-grid homes for needy

Trombe wall A Trombe wall is a south-facing masonry wall (for Northern hemisphere) covered with glass spaced a few inches away. Sunlight pas...

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Passive Heating Techniques - Free download as Powerpoint Presentation (.ppt / .pptx), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or view presentation slides online. Passive solar design uses sunlight to heat buildings without mechanical devices. There are three main approaches: direct gain, indirect gain, and isolated gain. Direct gain involves south-facing windows and thermal mass to store heat. Indirect gain uses elements like Trombe walls between windows and living spaces to absorb and transfer…

Torcasso House by Larry Speck

A Trombe wall retrofit workshop that I was leading in the late-1970s in New Mexico. To this simple frame, a layer of glazing was added, and sunlight would heat up the dark-painted wall. Photo: Alex Wilson. Click on image to enlarge. Last week I wrote about sunspaces and how they can be used to deliver passive solar heat to our homes. Another option for passive solar heating is the Trombe wall, or thermal storage wall. While the sunspace is an "isolated-gain" solar system, a Trombe wall is an…