Westwood Trombe Wall House
Columbia, Mo.
Designed to harmonize with the changing seasons, This three-story redwood home has several levels of decks and a greenhouse to harvest heat in winter and start plants in spring.
Nick Peckham RECEIVED A GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS TO RESEARCH SOLAR ENERGY IN ARCHITECTURE in 1975. Three years later, he broke ground on the Westwood trombe wall house.
breaking ground, 1978
Nick designed the residence as his family home while at Peckham & Wright Architects. He sold it in 1989.
The project features an active solar water heater and A trombe wall: a passive solar wall that absorbs winter sun and slowly releases heat overnight.
Nick received the CITY OF COLUMBIA ENERGY CONSERVATION AWARD for the house in 1984.
It appears in Passive Solar Architecture: Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting, and More using Natural Flows (2011).
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