VITAL SIGNS

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Authors: Graham Carter, Prerna Jain, & Jeff Hou

School: University of California, Berkeley
Faculty Advisor: Professor Gail Brager


Brief: As a showcase for environmental consciousness and ecological design, the Showroom at the Real Goods Solar Living Center has incorporated various energy-conserving passive environmental control strategies, such as night time ventilation, thermal mass, evaporative cooling, stack effect and passive solar heating. Three months after the June 1996 opening of the Center, a group of UC Berkeley architecture students examined the physical performance of the showroom. The results of their findings are reported in this case study.

 

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Created: 2/8/99

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