HOUSE WITH SOLAR CHIMNEY AND THE HOUSE WITH ROCK TOWER: THREE PASSIVE SOLAR HOUSES AT NORTH LATITUDE 35 DEGREES IN JAPAN.

This paper shows the house projects which have solar chimneys and wind towers for passive heating and cooling, and the passive and hybrid solar house and the measured performance in the first winter and summer since the construction of which the system and the project under construction have been shown at the Santa Fe Passive Solar Conference last year. They are three Japanese solar houses with passive methods for Japanese climate. The former projects have been just designed and are prepared to start to be constructed, and the latter one has been constructed in the last December and performances were measured and analyzed.