FreeGreen.com's Passive Solar House Plans  The Passive Shed is a home with three bedrooms, two baths and an open-plan, great room in an efficient 1,356 square foot layout. It features passive solar design techniques such as southern exposure for large areas of glazing, window shading devices and an elongated form.

Affordable Passive Solar Home Plans  The Construction Technology Department of Appalachian State University offers these free passive solar house plans. They are all designed to be affordable in terms of construction costs and energy bills. Some of the plans are converted from other sources, such as Habitat for Humanity and the Northwest North Carolina Housing Development Corporation; the remainder are original designs.

Sixty Five Free Passive Solar Home Designs  BuildItSolar.com offers free downloadable prints of designs that were the winners of a HUD competition among architects and builders. They are packed with innovative ideas and planned for specific regions:  Northeast   Midwest   South  West

Free Zero-Energy House Plans  Solar Today Magazine offers the plans and has a feature article on this traditional-looking Massachusetts house that's anything but traditional. It has a variety of features and details that allow it to be comfortable year-round while using no fuel or utility energy.

FreeGreen.com  You can download eleven free, energy efficient, healthy home plans at FreeGreen.com because the architects, engineers and builders who created that web site believe that green design should be accessible to everyone. 

Energy Efficient Home Plans from North Dakota State University Agricultural Extension Service  Download free design plans and building details for four different energy saving solar, earth sheltered and super-insulated home designs.

Less than Zero-Energy Home Plans  BuildItSolar.com offers free plans for the winning design in the Massachusetts Zero Energy Challenge. This affordable small home actually generates significantly more energy than it uses. It's a single-story, single-family detached dwelling of 1152 square feet, with three bedrooms and one bath.

Saltbox House Designs from the Historic American Building Survey  The Library of Congress list of Saltbox home designs, shown in photos and measured drawings, includes seventy houses homes built in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Virginia. Traditional Saltbox homes with south-facing fronts are prototypes for today's passive solar homes.

Energy Saving Home Designs from Louisiana State University's AgCenter  Free, instant download design plans and building details for six energy-saving southern homes.

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