The Code for Sustainable Homes makes no mention of passive solar design, which is disappointing. It is a tried and tested method of keeping energy consumption down. Yet, like so many other things, it goes in and out of fashion. Solar architecture was popular with the ancient Greeks, the Romans and Le Corbusier but has fallen from favour since the 1980s.
So, is arranging buildings for sunlight a dead duck as far as the UK is concerned? A debate on the subject held at Fulcrum Consulting in March 2005 suggests that there is still some life left in solar architecture. However, the motion was concerned with solar heating. The health benefits of solar design (on conditions such as depression, vitamin D deficiency and infectious diseases) don't appear to have been raised during this debate.
fulcrumfirst.com/pdf/debates/050317SolarArchitectureDebateMinutes.pdf
There appears to be only one school of architecture in the world that teaches its students about sunlight and health in buildings; at Murdoch University in Western Australia. http://energy.murdoch.edu.au/ACP/envarch/index.html.
If anyone knows of any others, do get in touch.
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