#beadwall

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Fine Homebuilding 2026-08-01

Publication whose 2006 forum thread provides the archive's only long-term real-world Beadwall performance data, from a 1983 superinsulated home.

Mother Earth News 2026-08-01

Magazine that profiled Harold Hay, published a 1974 Beadwall article, and ran the 1970s 'Living Off the Grid with Steve Baer' feature documenting Baer's Zomeworks compound.

MSU Broad Museum 2026-08-01

Michigan State University museum that hosted Oscar Tuazon's Water School exhibition in 2019.

David Boyd 2026-08-01

One of the developers, with Dick Henry and Baer, who brought the Skylid to its documented state.

Dick Henry 2026-08-01

One of the developers, with David Boyd and Baer, who brought the Skylid to its documented state.

Ron Shore 2026-08-01

Collaborator who ran the February 1974 reflector tests with Baer showing skylight reflectors increase heat gain by more than 30%.

Frank's House 2026-08-01

Beadwall house in Placitas, NM (1980) designed by Dave Harrison, shown in the 2009 AIA passive solar slideshow.

Monte Vista School 2026-08-01

Albuquerque school with a 1973 Dave Harrison/Zomeworks greenhouse; its Beadwall greenhouse is photographed in Sunspots.

Sunscoop 2026-08-01

David Wright's own 1974 Santa Fe adobe direct-gain house and office, the building the Karen Terry House was a variation of.

Beadwall 2026-08-01

Movable-insulation invention (US Patent 3,903,665, Harrison, filed 1973) that blows polystyrene beads between window panes, covered by Mother Earth News in 1974.

Curtain Wall 2026-08-01

Tuazon's 2013 glass-pane work whose cavity fills with polystyrene beads at night for insulation — functionally a Beadwall, though the article does not name Harrison's system.

Nightwall 2026-08-01

Baer's 1975 window insulation approach using rigid foam pressed against glass, the simplest of the three Zomeworks window-insulation systems.

US Patent 3,903,665 2026-08-01

Dave Harrison's 1975 Beadwall patent ('Heat energy transmission control panel'), assigned personally rather than to Zomeworks.

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