Toolkit for Passive House Education: Questions, Methods, Tools

The objectives of this paper include: a) providing an introduction to the passive house standards relative to other efforts toward high performance design; b) outlining various dissemination models for passive house principles and building performance concepts (drawing upon approaches from several universities in North America—curriculum sequences from seminars, design-build projects, and studios); c) suggesting a toolkit of resources, equipment, tools, and exercises that institutions could use to infuse passive house into the curriculum; d) discussing interactions between architectural education and the professional community and some of the successes and barriers to implementation of such collaborations.

keywords: Passive House, Knowledge Infusion, High-Performance Building, Education, Research Methods