Passive Solar Heating: Its Role in Architectural Shaping

Abstract

A notion ‘passive solar building design’ has been arisen so far. In fact, it means heat flows management using architectural shaping. Architectural shaping is based on logic of heat flows generation and movement. Nowadays, an architectural form has no direct relation to a structure as close as it used to be before. Ways and means of energy supply step forward and become a significant forming factor.It has been analyzed herein how solar energy as an environmental factor affects architectural shaping and design.