#double-play
29 articles · 16 raw sources · 4 inventory
A 2002 gathering documented in the Cool Cell development archive by a surviving list of attendees.
Cat welfare organization whose outdoor shelter build guidance informed the miniature Double Play cat-shelter design dimensions.
Animal welfare organization whose winter community-cat shelter guidance set the size and layout precedent for the cat-shelter experiment.
Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player.
Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, which published Kayatekin's 2025 paper on Steve Baer and the double-play thermosiphon.
Federal renewable energy lab in Golden, Colorado listed as a source of technical assessment, documentation funding, and grant partnerships for Baer House preservation.
Austrian organization that housed 3,500 students per year across nine Passive House dormitories, using institutional bulk deployment as living demonstration.
Institute behind the Passive House (Passivhaus) standard, cited as the clearest scaling success in the archive's promotion research (2,500 units built in Massachusetts with 35,000 …
UK Passive House affiliate that deliberately pitched insurance, legal, climate-risk, and finance sectors to diversify beyond the sustainability niche.
Veterinary information source whose feline heatstroke thresholds (104F+ body temperature) constrained the cat-shelter experiment's safety design.
Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player.
Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player in the current passive-cooling wave.
Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player.
Publication documenting the green-building performance gap, including UK showcase buildings using up to 3.5x more energy than modeled.
Italian Passive House affiliate that trained over 5,000 designers over two decades before pivoting around 2017-18 to pitching builders directly.
Company co-founded by Steve Baer in 1969 that developed and sold the DrumWall, Skylid, Sunbender, battery cabinets, Cool Cell, and Double Play, and passed to Benjamin Rodefer's sol…
Architect working with Zomeworks on border and Navajo Reservation building prospects for Double Play systems, per the 2004 shareholders letter.
Architect whose 'sitting in shorts during a polar vortex' story is the model example of Passive House comfort-framed messaging.
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…
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'.
New Mexico town that is home to Earthship Biotecture and was the center of Peter Rabbit's later poetry career.
Zomeworks' thermosiphon-based passive heating/cooling product line — the subject of Baer's 2004 shareholder pitch, Davis's studio installation, the Los Ranchos container proposal, …
Mike Reynolds' enterprise sustained by paid tours, a build-your-own academy, nightly rentals, and a legislative carve-out, with roughly 3,000 homes worldwide using its techniques.
Low-cost single-board computer at the heart of the archive's reusable off-grid sensor and logging rig for small passive-thermal experiments.
Zomeworks' unglazed collector panel product, used by Bruce Davis in Double Play installations and cited in Baer's 2003 unglazed collectors article for delivering warm showers throu…
Kayatekin's 2025 ICON paper — the first academic work to establish the Baer House and Zomeworks in international scholarship, calling the thermosiphon Baer's broadly overlooked cen…
Baer's patented closed-loop convective device (US 3,618,569) that keeps an ice hole open for livestock — the conceptual seed of the double-play thermosiphon lineage.
The 2002 Passive Heating and Cooling System patent held by Zomeworks — the Cool Cell architectural system patent underpinning the Double Play.
Inventory
Two temperature monitoring charts for Andy's Shack — 8-inch PVC pipe storage with roof-mounted copper radiators, covering June 2000 and June–July 2002.
Two photographs from the 2004 Double Play installation at architect Bruce Davis' studio in Albuquerque — Sky Mat roof radiators and interior PVC pipe storage.
Exterior and interior photos of the Zomeworks Double Play container prototype (EXIF 2026-03-25), plus a hand-drawn schematic of the thermosiphon supply/return loop.
Two photographs of a Double Play installation — radiant ceiling panels and the container exterior.
Raw sources
- List of Attendees — Double Play Systems Conference · 2026-02-10
- Double Plays — Old and New · 2026-07-18
- Bruce Davis Studio — Double Play Installation · 2026-02-09
- Potentials of Night Sky Radiation Cooling in New Mexico · 2026-07-18
- Steve Baer — Some Passive Solar Buildings with a Focus on New Mexico · 2026-07-18
- It's Not Rocket Science #5: Night Sky Radiant Cooling · 2026-07-19
- New Mexico Solar Energy Association (NMSEA) — nmsolar.org · 2026-07-13
- Double Play Structures — Zomeworks (R&D page) · 2026-07-13
- Double Play Container — Follow-up Photos and Zomeworks Schematic · 2026-07-18
- Zomeworks-Baer Double Play Container Shelter — Description (David Harrison) · 2026-10-18
- Double Play Container — As-Built Design Drawings (David Harrison, 10 sheets) · 2026-10-18
- Zomeworks-Baer Double Play Container — Seasonal Conversion Procedure (David Harrison) · 2026-10-18
- Zomeworks-Baer Double Play Shelter Tune Up Requirements and Recommendations · 2026-10-30
- Double Play Installation — Photos · 2025-01-01
- Research digest — Double Play at Los Ranchos Agri-Nature Center (pitch support) · 2026-07-13
- Email: Bruce Davis forwarding David Harrison — Double Play Container Drawings and Notes · 2026-10-18