Reinventing a Passive Solar Design

A New Mexican builder updates the work of his father with a new and improved project nearly 40 years after the original

Albuquerque, New Mexico, was an incubator for alternative building technologies when Jon Davis graduated from the University of New Mexico in the early 1970s and started building passive solar adobe houses.

Although not an architect, Davis had studied the principles of passive solar design in school, and after graduation embraced superinsulated buildings and, eventually, structural insulated panels (SIPs).

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Article Via GreenBuildingAdvisor.com