Paul Mallory Owner-Builder Support Project - Santa Fe, NM
I called in all my favors and was grateful to get a large crew out to help with window install. The rough bucks were perfectly sized and square and the windows slid right in. I chose to use large windows to try to maximize southern glazing. If I had a lot of smaller windows and adobe bricks between each one, I wouldn’t have been able to achieve the correct amount of window square footage for a passive solar design. I sized my windows with help from Edward Mazria’s The Passive Solar Energy Handbook. I needed about 25% of the square footage in windows as the square footage of the floor plan.
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