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Please recommend me a book on passive/sustainable building or architecture

 
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I read Sobon's book on timber framing and found it really fun and interesting; definitely would buy a copy and revisit it later if I wanted to one day build a timber frame house.

Are there any equivalent books for passive/sustainable building methods? Or books that delve into the architectural concepts related to them? What would you recommend?
 
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R-40 insulation (plastic-foam, rockwool, pumice, strawbale/straw, cellulose, cob, 40-80inch+ of super dry dirt)
South Facing Windows that
Radiant Floor Heating (powered by pellet/wood boiler, CO2 Heat Pump, 5,000gallon tank filled with 190F water heated by the summer sun, etc)
Ventilation (Bathroom vent, kitchen/stove vent, ERV for air exchange)
Dehumidifier/Humidifier (Heat Pump/AC and Evaporative Humidifier)
Vapour Barrier

Then there is the post and beams that hold up the roof, it can be 2x4 or timber or iron or alluminium or concrete or stone or compress earth block.

Then there is the actual roof which can roof, which is usually lumber or concrete

Then there is the finish/facade (drywall-stucco-cement-stone, cob, lumber)

 
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S Bengi wrote:R-40 insulation (plastic-foam, rockwool, pumice, strawbale/straw, cellulose, cob, 40-80inch+ of super dry dirt)
South Facing Windows that
Radiant Floor Heating (powered by pellet/wood boiler, CO2 Heat Pump, 5,000gallon tank filled with 190F water heated by the summer sun, etc)
Ventilation (Bathroom vent, kitchen/stove vent, ERV for air exchange)
Dehumidifier/Humidifier (Heat Pump/AC and Evaporative Humidifier)
Vapour Barrier

Then there is the post and beams that hold up the roof, it can be 2x4 or timber or iron or alluminium or concrete or stone or compress earth block.

Then there is the actual roof which can roof, which is usually lumber or concrete

Then there is the finish/facade (drywall-stucco-cement-stone, cob, lumber)


S Bengi, thanks for this list of components, they are all things that indeed seem useful for passive architecture...but I can't figure out what book you are recommending to me. :P
 
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Update, nevermind. I found the big list of book recommendations here, I will peruse that. A few promising titles already...
 
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