Australian Passive Solar Home

An overview of our house that I have done for Sustainable House Day 2026.

One of the two excellent ideas I gained from Derek Wrigley’s much underestimated book ‘Making Your…

Here are four simple questions that you’d think would be easy for Passivhaus proponents in Australia…

One of the interesting things about the different approaches to energy efficient homes is that those…

So how did our passive solar house perform over the whole of the 2025-2026 Australian summer…

We’re very familiar with being heated by radiation – sunshine. If we stand outside in a…

People often say of our house design, “It’s so innovative!” But no, it’s not – in…

So what do you do if it’s a 36 deg C day and the power is…

In an earlier post I showed the classic energy-efficient home design books from my library. Now…

Passive solar home design uses four elements: In summer, performance is most heavily governed by shading,…