Hot Water Heater
For the hot water heater we had set instructions to try to make the best heater to heat up the water the quickest. We used two cardboard boxes, a two liter bottle, a plastic tube, copper tubing, tin foil, black spray paint, and four Dixie cups. After assembling the heater we all brought our individual groups heaters outside into the sun. Next we tested the them for twenty minutes taking the temperature every five minutes. Our heater ended up placing third with a six degree increase in temperature during the time we had.
Solar Angles and How it Changes During the Seasons
The angles of the sun are very important because in a house you want a lot of heat and light in the winter and not so much in the summer. So knowing the angles of the sun will help you figure out how much of a over hang you want on you roof and how much sun you want in your house.
Daylighting Design
The main idea of the daylighting unit was to see which technique worked the best on a small cardboard box house. The only materials we used were cardboard, exact-o knife, tinfoil, and hot glue.
Some Daylighting Techniques:
Light Shelf: Used to bounce light from the overhang to the sill, which then reflects light into and throughout the room.
Solar Tubes: Opening which lets in light, and bounces down the reflective tubing into the room.
Clerestory Windows: Windows situated up high, not for view, but to catch the suns rays that come in at a higher angle.
Skylights: A glazed opening in the roof to let light in.
Site Selection
Our group chose a perfect location for our passive solar home. it is located in between the Spanish wing and the auto shop. We were originally going to use it as a tutor center for everything, but then we actually thought about it and realized that we couldn't fit that many people into a 120 square foot building, so we decided it to be a Spanish tutoring center.
Materials Testing
We did a lab on which materials were the best for heating a building and dark hardwood flooring was the material that stuck out the most. The material was able to heat up quicker and stay heated for longer.
Building design
First we started out by thinking how big our building should be. We researched and found that 120 square feet was the biggest we could go before we had to use a permit, so we had to keep it from getting any bigger than 10x12. After know how big it was going to be we got right to planning. I started out by drawing the floor plan, next Toby made two of the walls and Logan made two walls and the ceiling. while we were doing that archer was in charge of making the online 3D model. after laying the blueprints out we made a little bit of changes to the roof before creating the actual model of our house. when we first started the model of the house we were trying to figure out were to start so I got some pieces of card board and started measuring out the correct lengths of the walls scaled down of coarse, next I cut out the pieces that I measured to the correct scaled size. I did this for the front back, top, bottom and the sides. after I put paper on the house I had finished the model. after doing the model toby did the materials list for all the materials that we needed to use for our whole house. Finally, we presented our design to the engineers at our presentation night. when we got into class the next, Mr. Williams told us that our group wasn't pick to have the main idea of the building, but our idea would be part of the actual house.
Concepts
Conduction: A transfer of heat between two parts of a stationary system, caused by a temperature between the parts.the carrying of sound waves, electrons, heat, or nerve impulses by a nerve or other tissue
Convection: The transfer of heat by the circulation or movement of the heated parts of liquid or gas.
Radiation: The complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through intervening medium or space, and absorbed by another body
heat: A state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
Thermal conductivity: heat travels from places of lower pressure to places of higher pressure, from warmer to colder.
Buoyancy: the ability to rise or float in a liquid.
Reflection
This project was very time consuming, but very fun at the same time. Our group worked very well together, and what we did in the group coincided with each of our hobbies. Most of the days we worked were really fun, but some were not so fun like the days we had nothing to do and were just sitting around or going to other groups and talking. I learned a lot in this project like how much actually goes into construction and building a house. I also learned the steps to building a house like blue prints, model, presentation, being picked, and then actually staring to build. If I did this project again I would have spent more time on the model and making it actually pertain to the house by using popsicle sticks for the skeleton of the house and cotton balls for the insulation. I also would have put wood on half of the house. Our groups materials list was beautifully put together as where the blue prints that we did. the things I had trouble with were staying on task I would go around to other groups and talk for a little while but I wasn't to bad about it, another thing I had trouble with was keeping track of time. I thought that the critical friends really helped us get to where we were cause without that would have probably still been working on the project right now. all in all this was a really fun project and I think Mr. Williams should do it with the next class of freshman as well.
justification
We could use many different energy saving techniques for our house these are some of the pros and cons of them.
For the hot water heater we had set instructions to try to make the best heater to heat up the water the quickest. We used two cardboard boxes, a two liter bottle, a plastic tube, copper tubing, tin foil, black spray paint, and four Dixie cups. After assembling the heater we all brought our individual groups heaters outside into the sun. Next we tested the them for twenty minutes taking the temperature every five minutes. Our heater ended up placing third with a six degree increase in temperature during the time we had.
Solar Angles and How it Changes During the Seasons
The angles of the sun are very important because in a house you want a lot of heat and light in the winter and not so much in the summer. So knowing the angles of the sun will help you figure out how much of a over hang you want on you roof and how much sun you want in your house.
Daylighting Design
The main idea of the daylighting unit was to see which technique worked the best on a small cardboard box house. The only materials we used were cardboard, exact-o knife, tinfoil, and hot glue.
Some Daylighting Techniques:
Light Shelf: Used to bounce light from the overhang to the sill, which then reflects light into and throughout the room.
Solar Tubes: Opening which lets in light, and bounces down the reflective tubing into the room.
Clerestory Windows: Windows situated up high, not for view, but to catch the suns rays that come in at a higher angle.
Skylights: A glazed opening in the roof to let light in.
Site Selection
Our group chose a perfect location for our passive solar home. it is located in between the Spanish wing and the auto shop. We were originally going to use it as a tutor center for everything, but then we actually thought about it and realized that we couldn't fit that many people into a 120 square foot building, so we decided it to be a Spanish tutoring center.
Materials Testing
We did a lab on which materials were the best for heating a building and dark hardwood flooring was the material that stuck out the most. The material was able to heat up quicker and stay heated for longer.
Building design
First we started out by thinking how big our building should be. We researched and found that 120 square feet was the biggest we could go before we had to use a permit, so we had to keep it from getting any bigger than 10x12. After know how big it was going to be we got right to planning. I started out by drawing the floor plan, next Toby made two of the walls and Logan made two walls and the ceiling. while we were doing that archer was in charge of making the online 3D model. after laying the blueprints out we made a little bit of changes to the roof before creating the actual model of our house. when we first started the model of the house we were trying to figure out were to start so I got some pieces of card board and started measuring out the correct lengths of the walls scaled down of coarse, next I cut out the pieces that I measured to the correct scaled size. I did this for the front back, top, bottom and the sides. after I put paper on the house I had finished the model. after doing the model toby did the materials list for all the materials that we needed to use for our whole house. Finally, we presented our design to the engineers at our presentation night. when we got into class the next, Mr. Williams told us that our group wasn't pick to have the main idea of the building, but our idea would be part of the actual house.
Concepts
Conduction: A transfer of heat between two parts of a stationary system, caused by a temperature between the parts.the carrying of sound waves, electrons, heat, or nerve impulses by a nerve or other tissue
Convection: The transfer of heat by the circulation or movement of the heated parts of liquid or gas.
Radiation: The complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through intervening medium or space, and absorbed by another body
heat: A state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
Thermal conductivity: heat travels from places of lower pressure to places of higher pressure, from warmer to colder.
Buoyancy: the ability to rise or float in a liquid.
Reflection
This project was very time consuming, but very fun at the same time. Our group worked very well together, and what we did in the group coincided with each of our hobbies. Most of the days we worked were really fun, but some were not so fun like the days we had nothing to do and were just sitting around or going to other groups and talking. I learned a lot in this project like how much actually goes into construction and building a house. I also learned the steps to building a house like blue prints, model, presentation, being picked, and then actually staring to build. If I did this project again I would have spent more time on the model and making it actually pertain to the house by using popsicle sticks for the skeleton of the house and cotton balls for the insulation. I also would have put wood on half of the house. Our groups materials list was beautifully put together as where the blue prints that we did. the things I had trouble with were staying on task I would go around to other groups and talk for a little while but I wasn't to bad about it, another thing I had trouble with was keeping track of time. I thought that the critical friends really helped us get to where we were cause without that would have probably still been working on the project right now. all in all this was a really fun project and I think Mr. Williams should do it with the next class of freshman as well.
justification
We could use many different energy saving techniques for our house these are some of the pros and cons of them.