PIX number

09260

Title:

Passive down-draft cooltower at Zion's Visitor Center

Caption

The new Visitor Center at Zion National Park is a sustainable building that incorporates the area's natural features and energy efficient building concepts into an attractive design that saves energy and operating expenses while protecting the environment. The building uses primarily daylighting for lighting the the interior and thermal mass flooring heating the space in winter. The passive down-draft cooltowers release cool air into the building in the summer.

Credit:

Williamson, Robb

Publications:



Date:

5/26/2000

Index Date:

6/13/2000

DOE_office:

Notes:

Energy efficient features: Trombe wall, photovoltaic system, daylighting, passive down-draft cooltower, irrigation for landscaping, natural ventilation, thermal mass flooring, and optimized overhangs. See Robb's website @ http://www.williamsonimages.com/; originals belong to Paul Torcellini

Subject:

buildings, energy efficiency

Descriptors:

building components, building systems and heating and passive solar and Trombe wall, commercial and recreational facility, construction and building materials, cooling, Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), high performance building, interior, photovoltaics, PV, visitor's

Person/Place:

Springdale, Utah; Zion National Park; Visitors Center

Release Level

Full/Internet

DOE Information:

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