Use of an atrium for the passive-solar retrofit of an office building: design and installation experience

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5187263

Hunn, B D; Peterson, J L

A clerestory window system has been installed over a courtyard in an existing two-story office building/museum at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, thus creating an atrium. This atrium serves as a passive solar heating and daylighting system for the building and provides new display space for the museum. The retrofit consists of a roof-mounted clerestory window system with night insulating shutters which: forms an atrium that provides new museum space, buffers the former courtyard walls and windows, preheats ventilation air for the entire building, and provides daylighting and heating for the new museum space. The passive system is coupled to the heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system of the surrounding building by inducing fresh-air makeup through the solar-tempered atrium; heating, cooling, and daylighting are addressed in the design. The design process, the use of the DOE-2 building energy analysis computer program during design, and the construction of the atrium are described.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5187263
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-82-2040; CONF-820733-1; ON: DE82019561
• Resource Relation: Conference: Designing and managing energy conscious commercial buildings conference, Denver, CO, USA, 19 Jul 1982
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
ATRIA
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
RETROFITTING
OFFICE BUILDINGS
PASSIVE SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
COST
DAYLIGHTING
ENERGY ANALYSIS
INCLINATION
INSTALLATION
ORIENTATION
SHUTTERS
SPACE HVAC SYSTEMS
THERMAL INSULATION
WINDOWS
BUILDINGS
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
HEATING SYSTEMS
OPENINGS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
140901* - Solar Thermal Utilization- Space Heating & Cooling