Trombe wall

Trombe walls offer relief from both the cold and the smoke.

Other more specialised techniques are trombe walls and double envelope construction.

Examples of these are trombe walls and other technologies as skylights.

The solar chimney can be improved by integrating it with a trombe wall.

During the heating cycle the Trombe wall radiates stored heat.

He is best known for his pioneering work in passive solar building design with the Trombe wall, which bears his name.

Common modifications to the Trombe wall include:

Windows in the trombe wall.

This includes a Trombe wall, a ventilated concrete floor, a cistern, water wall or roof pond.

Such venting makes the Trombe wall act as a solar chimney pumping fresh air through the house during the day, even if there is no breeze.

Among them was a trombe wall, a glass wall placed in front of a dark-green stucco wall with a space between so that heat rises.

Rainwater tanks or drums may be used inside a house to provide thermal mass for a trombe wall (or water wall).

Druk White Lotus School website including Trombe wall example.

Since 1980, passive solar expert Douglas Balcomb has recommended that Trombe walls should not be vented to the interior.

A Trombe wall is a passive solar heating and ventilation system consisting of an air channel sandwiched between a window and a sun-facing thermal mass.

One problem with this that, like Trombe walls, the heat would radiate back out at night, and a convection current would chill the room during the night.

Modern Trombe walls have vents added to the top and bottom of the interior wall, to allow heated air to flow via convection into the building interior.

Trombe Walls-NREL page extolling Trombe walls, with no reference to heat loss issues.

In addition, to decrease costs of operation (heating, cooling, ...) techniques as Earth sheltering, Trombe walls, ... are often incorporated.

If the outer glazing has high ultraviolet transmittance, and the window in the trombe wall is normal glass, this allows efficient use of the ultraviolet light for heating.

The Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh uses Trombe walls and as part of "a model of appropriate design and development".

Douglas Kelbaugh, FAIA (1998-present) - former dean, and designer of the first American passive solar home (using a Trombe wall)

Ladakh receives about 320 days of sun annually, and the traditional building materials - stone and mud brick - provide the thermal mass needed for heat collection in a Trombe wall.

Trombe wall - a sun-facing wall separated from the outdoors by glass and an air space, which absorbs solar energy and releases it selectively towards the interior at night.

In Ladakh, India, the Ladakh Project is designing Trombe walls that complement Ladakh's traditional architecture and has promoted building them in Ladakhi homes.