A comprehensive review of solar facades. Opaque solar facades

Guillermo Quesada, Daniel Rousse, Yvan Dutil, Messaoud Badache and Stéphane Hallé

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2012, vol. 16, issue 5, 2820-2832

Abstract: In antiquity, people already knew the principles of solar architecture, designing their houses to the south to take advantage of the sun in all seasons. Today, solar architecture is undergoing a true revolution because of the development, among other things, of special facades involved in the processes of heating, ventilation, thermal isolation, shading, electricity generation and lighting of homes: these are called “solar facades”. This paper aims to review the remarkable developments that have occurred during the first decade of this century in this field.

Keywords: Building-integrated solar thermal system (BIST); Building-integrated photovoltaic system (BIPV); Building-integrated photovoltaic thermal system (BIPV/T); Solar dynamic buffer zone (SDBZ) curtain wall; Thermal storage wall; Solar chimney (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.01.078

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