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The 1948 Dover, Massachusetts solar house by Maria Telkes and Eleanor Raymond, funded by Amelia Peabody. Used 21 tons of Glauber's salt for phase-change heat storage. Achieved 91% …
New Mexico city home to Bruce Davis's practice, the AIA chapter Baer addressed in 2009, and the 1956 Bridgers & Paxton solar-heated office building.
Zomeworks test building in Albuquerque (in use by 1988, monitored 2000-2002) with a 250-gallon PVC-pipe water bank and roof-mounted copper radiator — a direct experimental preceden…
Harold Hay's full-scale 1,100 sq ft Skytherm roof-pond house built 1973 in Atascadero, California, which operated for roughly 40 years and was later donated to Cal Poly.
1978 Baer/Zomeworks drum wall and clerestory project in Pecos, New Mexico, surveyed in the 2009 AIA slideshow.
Bruce W. Davis's 236 sq ft Albuquerque studio, cooled from 2004 by a thermosiphon Double Play system with 12 Sky Mat radiator/absorbers — the first documented Zomeworks deployment …
New Mexico town where Steve Baer built his zome house in 1971-72 and where the Baer family and Benjamin Rodefer grew up; a center of 1970s passive solar interest.
New Mexico village where Peter Van Dresser relocated in 1949, ran a small restaurant, and built solar- and wind-powered houses.
Beadwall house in Placitas, NM (1980) designed by Dave Harrison, shown in the 2009 AIA passive solar slideshow.
Northern New Mexico site where NMSEA was co-founded in 1972, where the first Life Technic conference was held, and where the Sun-dwellings project was built; Van Dresser is buried …
Persian city that by 1870 had numerous yakhchals serving both wealthy and poor residents with pond-frozen ice.
New Mexico village whose Agri-Nature Center — a working farm and education center with repeat visitation — is the proposed demonstration site for the Double Play shipping-container…
Site in Placitas, New Mexico where Baer and collaborators practiced zonahedra construction in 1966-1968, before Zomeworks existed.
Albuquerque school with a 1973 Dave Harrison/Zomeworks greenhouse; its Beadwall greenhouse is photographed in Sunspots.
1976 state office building in Taos with insulated drum shades credited to William Mingenbach, surveyed in Baer's 2009 AIA slideshow.
Corrales house (1972) with a convective air-loop rock-storage system, part of the air-based storage lineage Baer began at Drop City.
South Texas region about 220 miles from San Antonio, hotter and more humid on average, on which the cat-shelter experiment's initial climate research was mistakenly based.
Texas city (29.41N, 98.48W) identified via a hyperlocal weather station as the actual build site for the miniature Double Play cat-shelter experiment, with humid conditions that ma…
New Mexico city where Van Dresser built a refined solar adobe house near Canyon Road around 1956, later called 'the first solar house west of the Mississippi'.
Small passive-solar modular house designed by Bruce W. Davis with Karen Terry, using a vertical water wall as a Trombe wall for primary heating in a high-desert setting.
Bridgers & Paxton's 1956 office headquarters at 213 Truman St. SE, Albuquerque, widely called the world's first solar-heated commercial office building, now on the National Registe…
David Wright's own 1974 Santa Fe adobe direct-gain house and office, the building the Karen Terry House was a variation of.
New Mexico town that is home to Earthship Biotecture and was the center of Peter Rabbit's later poetry career.
New Mexico site where the 2006 NSRC report's ten radiator panels were tested over two summers.
Steve Baer's cluster of connected zomes in Corrales, New Mexico, built beginning in 1971 as the first full-scale testbed for DrumWall, Skylid, and Sunbender, still passively heatin…
The second passive solar house built in New Mexico (Santa Fe, 1974) — a sub-1,000 sq ft four-level direct-gain design by David Wright, built largely by Karen Terry herself.