111 Free House Plans for
Solar, Green and Energy Efficient Homes
These free building plans can
help you create an efficient home that
takes advantage of free energy from the sun and saves you a fortune
in heating and cooling costs.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Design Your Own
Home
Plan3D is an online service that helps you create a home (or garage,
barn, shed or room extension), landscape it and lay out furniture. View
your work from any angle - inside and out. Use Plan3D to create a
new kitchen or extension to your old home or to design a new garage
or shed. Everything is online and inexpensive, so you
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