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Delta - passive solar house in Charsfield UK - architect : Cedric Green
| New Timber framed house built by the architect for his family in 1974. The house design featured a south -facing 2 storey passive solar greenhouse (conservatory). Winter sun peneprated deep into the rooms behind, and warm air circulated by convection into the upper floor bedrooms. The heating was by off-peak electric underfloor cables on the ground floor and block storage heaters in the bedrooms. The roof and walls were very well insulated. |
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.jpg "View from south 1975 - construction - Douglas fir frame, well insulated roof with slates - glazed solar conservatory.")
.jpg "View across fields (before Dutch elm disease hit trees) 1975")
.jpg "West side")
.jpg "Garden elevation")
.jpg "Garden side from West")
.jpg "View in Winter")
.jpg "Duck eye view from Potsford Brook")
.jpg "Living room and bedroom windows")
.jpg "Conservatory")
.jpg "Two storey conservatory...")
.jpg "...with summer reflective blinds.")
.jpg "Timber frame (Douglas Fir) delivered.")
.jpg "Mr Saunders and son putting up the timber frame.")
.jpg "Frame with galvanised bolts and ring connectors.")
.jpg "Frame erected after a week.")
.jpg "Delta constr (5).jpg")
.jpg "After 2 weeks...")
.jpg "Ground and first floor plans")
.jpg "Cross section showing passive warm air circulation and summer and winter midday sun angles")
.jpg "Stair hall and dining area viewed from sitting room.")
.jpg "Sitting room with sliding doors left separating kitchen or hall.")
.jpg "Sitting room")
.jpg "Kitchen")
.jpg "View from kitchen")
.jpg "bedroom 2")
.jpg "Bedroom 1")
.jpg "Bedroom 1")
.jpg "Hall and stair")
.jpg "The house was instrumented, dialy readings of solar radiation, temperatures, humidity were measured over the winter, and analysed by computer at Sheffield University in 1975")
.jpg "Delta design (1).jpg")
.jpg "The conservatory at night")
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