Earth in passive building
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Earth in passive building
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Designers and investors do not often appreciate one of the characteristics of the wall, which is to accumulate warmth, and which stabilizes the temperature of the interior of the building and creates favourable conditions for the inhabitants.
This characteristic also enables the wall to make use of heat coming from e.g. the sun. Accumulative properties depend primarily on the mass of the wall and the material from which it is made.
The stability of the warmth of the building , that is the time in which it maintains a constant internal temperature, regardless of the temperature outside (e.g. when there is very frosty weather or a very strong wind) or when the heating is turned off, depends on the accumulative properties, insulation and construction (layers)of the walls. In order for the walls to accumulate warmth and give it to the interior of the building, they must be insulated externally.
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Materials with a large warmth capacity accumulate warmth in houses and earth is counted as one of these. Thanks to its ability to accumulate heat, clay aids in the maintenance of the appropriate compositions and stable temperature. Walls made with rammed clay are solid and their heat capacity is extremely large.
In summer, in buildings designed for public use, walls made of earth retard the rise in temperature to the maximum level until late on in the afternoon, which reduces the use of energy required for air conditioning.
The higher the accumulation of warmth, the higher the warmth inertia, in other words the lower the internal changes in temperature as the building`s `answer`to the dynamic changes of the heating provided from the heating system or from the sun. Therefore, when when designing a passive home, it is worth taking into consideration elements with a high heat capacity.
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