The Sun-Inspired House: House Designs Warmed and Brightened by the Sun - Softcover

Coleman, Debra Rucker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976731800 ISBN 13: 9780976731801

Publisher: Sun Plans Inc, 2005

Synopsis

The Sun Inspired House: Ideas and House Plans Using the Sun to Brighten and Warm Your Home is a unique combination of passive solar information and house plans designed to use the sun to maximum efficiency. The information is educational while the designs are inspirational. The elegant yet functional homes capture the non-polluting heat and wonderful light of the sun in a wide range of warm and welcoming styles. Blueprints are available for most of the designs.

About this title

From the Author:

Debra Rucker Coleman, Architect and President of Sun Plans, Inc. has designed passive solar homes since 1985. Some of her work has been featured in Fine Homebuilding, Solar Today, and Home Energy. Coleman has lived in hot, moderate, and cold climates, but currently resides in Alabama, in a sun-temperes home for which she was both the architect and general contractor.

About the Author:

Debra Rucker Coleman, Architect and founder of Sun Plans Inc. has been designing passive solar homes since 1985. She received her Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Arizona and became a licensed architect in 1984 after an internship in architecture and construction. In 2002 she received the "Best Practice" Sustainability Award for Residential Buildings from the Sustainable Building Industries Council. Her houses have been on the National Tour of Solar Homes. Fine Homebuilding, Solar Today, Mother Earth News, Home Power, Home Energy, numerous other publications, radio shows, and web sites have reviewed or published her work. Debra has lived in many climate zones including the Southwestern and Eastern U.S., Switzerland, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean. She has researched energy requirements for other climates in the United States and Canada. She currently lives in Alabama in a sun-tempered home that she constructed with her family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sun Plans Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0976731800
• ISBN 13: 9780976731801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248