Review of the Passive Solar Building Designs

Abstract

It is an urgent need of today’s present time for sustainable development. With ever growing infrastructure everyday construction and maintenance of buildings require huge amount of power usage. Passive solar building designing can be a key answer to this problem and a huge step towards sustainable development by meeting the power demands by solar energy usage. This paper is a suggestive and analytical, theoretical and indicative study of developments in solar passive building designing technology relevant to both developed and developing countries .The development of these areas is presented along with the scientific principles and various design concepts. Factors kept in mind for design strategies such as direct gain, indirect gain and isolated gain have been studied and described. Studies of site consideration, material availability and also economic cost have been taken into consideration. Some examples of previous successful designs both from Indian and Foreign buildings constructed during the past decades are detailed with their performances and remarks concluding the future and current trends have been indicated. A review of previous research works showing significant milestones in passive solar buildings has been studied and suggestions of new ideas have been incorporated. Hence it can be seen that power usage reduction in solar efficient building will enhance the sustainable development of a region.