How The Schweikher House Harnesses the Sun
This video shows you How The Schweikher House Harnesses the Sun to regulate the air. The house has a unique spatial composition. It also deploys a host of very clever techniques to maintain comfort in the house all year round, with minimal need for mechanical methods of heating, cooling or moving air.
In the 1940s, Chicago became the center of the "Solar Home" movement. Despite the term's recent designation, appropriate orientation and window placement principles have existed for decades. But during the Great Depression, along with the widespread use of windows and new technologies like air conditioning, architects and the general public became more aware of the advantages of passive solar design. The Schweikher House, constructed in the 1930s, is visited in this video to examine its passive solar design. It is not a "Solar Home" in the traditional sense, but the architect collaborated closely with George Keck before it was built, and it includes many of the ideas that would later be formalized. The house was responsive to solar orientation, natural ventilation, and a clear manifestation of sustainable building techniques, motivated by the forced economy of the Depression that surrounded its production.
Key moments:
0:15 Schweiker
1:57 Height of the Sun at Noon
2:22 Direct Gain Passive Solar System
4:43 Passive Solar
5:12 An indirect Gain
5:37 Solar Home
6:54 The House of Tomorrow
8:15 Solar House
This video demonstrates how The Schweikher House takes advantage of the sun to control the air temperature and thus it maintains comfort in the house all year round. If you like our videos please click the like button on the video and follow our channel as it helps us massively.
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