#drumwall

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Professional body whose Albuquerque chapter hosted Baer's 2009 slideshow surveying New Mexico passive solar buildings from 1968 to 2009.

Cap'A 2026-08-01

French architecture travel journal/blog that documented a 2017 visit to Bruce W. Davis and described the DrumWall's Drop City roots.

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.

The Atlantic 2026-08-01

Publication where Alexis Madrigal wrote about Baer's Sun Riots fiction during Occupy Wall Street in 2011.

Federal agency that funded the LBL AET library, produced the Passive Solar Design Handbook with Los Alamos, and runs the Solar Decathlon and Energy Saver programs cited across the …

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…

The Baer House 2026-08-01

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…

Frank's House 2026-08-01

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

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.

David Bainbridge's 1981 practitioner's guide (reissued 2005) to water-wall thermal mass, which independently corroborates the Baer House DrumWall installation.

DrumWall 2026-08-01

Steve Baer's original passive solar heat storage invention: a south-facing wall of water-filled drums behind glazing that absorbs solar heat by day and radiates it into the room ov…

2006 book co-authored by Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper (BookSurge Publishing).

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