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The passive solar heated school in wallasey. II background, preliminary analyses and patent specification
Author(s) -
Davies M. G.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.4440100203
Subject(s) - passive solar building design , architectural engineering , locality , solar energy , engineering , mechanical engineering , computer science , electrical engineering , philosophy , linguistics
The Wallasey School is now recognized as an important building in the development of passive solar design. This article describes an enquiry into the origins of the building. It reviews such information as could have been known to the architect Mr. E. A. Morgan, at the time he was working on its design, and also discusses briefly such design techniques as are known to have been available to him. Some of his calculations, previously believed to have been associated with the building, are presented in detail. Morgan patented the design and an annotated version is given here. It is concluded that the architect had a good understanding of steady‐state heat transfer in buildings but his handling of thermal storage was dubious. There is no direct evidence to suggest that Morgan could be assured that his construction would save, rather than waste, fuel for heating, but attention is drawn to results which indicate that a solar wall in that locality should save energy; Morgan could well have been aware of these findings.