Solar Architecture

Solar Architecture is the most simple and cheapest possibility of making use of the solar energy. The energy of the sun can be used passively as well as actively.

The way the passive use of the sun works is very simple.The sun can penetrate into the house if one lets it do so through the design of the building (for example big south windows, greenhouse etc.) Within the house the energy of the sun will be transformed into warmth.Through the appropriate choice of materials (for example transparent isolation) the solar energy can be changed into heat directly on the sufaces of the walls. The storage of the solar warmth in the walls and the floor and the releasing of it later on, can save  considerable amounts of heating energy.

By the planning of the buildings the active use of solar energy is going to be taken into consideration directly by means of enriched thermal solar systems as well as photovoltaic installations. The outcome is the integration of the the technical installations optimally into the  house concept.

We are aiming at the standard of "low energy house" as our minimum standard and moreover, where the financial considerations make it possible, at the standard of “passive house”.
     Solar house Haselberger in Baveria, Germany