Passive solar in traditional architectural packages

This paper is addressed to builders and designer-builders. The primary concern of this audience is marketing the passive solar home. This brief is divided into two parts. The first relates the experiences of ConSolarNation Corporation, a design and build firm in Stony Run, Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Allentown, fifty miles north of Philadelphia. The second part offers a simple graphic comparison of the solar gain potential of two sunspace configurations: (a) the solar wedge with its sixty degree sloped collection plane; and (b) the solar salt box which has a bent collection plane springing vertically from the ground and folding to a thirty degree plane back to the house.