# Passive solar and natural cooling: Overview

Buildings that heat, cool and light themselves

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_passive/overview/

What this tile covers Buildings designed to gather or shed heat and light without machines.

#### Key facts

| **Output** | Heat, cooling, light |
|---|---|

#### Included from the reference tables

- Sun-facing glazing, Trombe walls, sunrooms, daylighting
- Natural ventilation and windcatchers
- Earth tubes and earth-sheltered buildings
- Evaporative and radiative cooling
- Traditional cooling: ice houses, stored snow, thermal mass
- Seawater air conditioning

#### Also in Solar
[PV Solar photovoltaics](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_pv/)[CSP Concentrated solar power](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_csp/)[SHC Solar heat collectors](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_solar_heat/)[SF Solar fuels and photosynthesis](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_solar_fuels/)

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 More on this tile in the tabs above: efficiency, techniques, resources and labour, impact on the biosphere.

## Other sections

- [Summary](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_passive/index.md)
- [Correlation](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_passive/correlation/index.md)
- [Efficiency](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_passive/efficiency/index.md)
- [Techniques](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_passive/techniques/index.md)
- [Resources and labour](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_passive/resources/index.md)
- [Impact on the biosphere](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_passive/biosphere/index.md)
- [Relationships](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_passive/links/index.md)