Trombe wall architecture

Atelier Craft and ICI! have designed a triangular day shelter for migrants and refugees in Paris, with a modular timber frame that can be demounted.

This article is part of Ungreen, a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we attempt to create a resistance against some of the dogmas assimilated within contemporary discourse that sustainable architecture has to be “green”. We want to recover the ancestral knowledge that was shared among generations throughout history of humanity and defines how urban […]

From outside to inside, a Trombe wall consists of a layer or more of glass, a narrow air space, and a masonry wall coated with a dark, heat-absorbing material. Energy […]

An environmental education facility Amsterdam, partly clad in tessellating timber panels, has solar panels integrated into the south-facing side of its roof

Passive cooling systems are a type of building design that uses natural processes to cool a building without the use of mechanical systems.

Regular readers will know that we tend to favour simple, non-mechanical methods of green design, like passive solar heating instead of, say, thermal solar collectors with evacuated tubes and pumps. One

Trombe wall A Trombe wall is a south-facing masonry wall (for Northern hemisphere) covered with glass spaced a few inches away. Sunlight pas...

Named after engineer Felix Trombe, the system combines glass and a dark, heat-absorbing material to conduct heat slowly into the house

Double Face 2.0: A lightweight translucent adaptable Trombe wall | SPOOL