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Author: Five students in a seminar at UCB School: UC Berkeley
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Siegel House, a passive solar residence in the Village Homes subdivision at Davis,
California. The house was designed to use a thermosiphon loop sytem with 14-foot-high
steel tubes filled with river rock for thermal storage. In this report, student investigators examine how this design has fared over the years, specifically looking at the operation of the thermosiphon loop, comfort in the sunspace, effectiveness of thermal mass in the house, and stack effect in the two-story living room. They discover that several passive solar aspects of the design, in particular the thermosiphon loop, do not operate as originally intended by the designers.The owners have made a number of revisions to the house that also have an impact on its thermal performance. The owners, however, are very happy with the house and the Village Homes subdivision in which it is located. |
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The Siegel House: A Study of a Passive Solar Design
