Slideshow designed to use as basis for session on passive solar greenhouse design. Hand-drawn images are based on student designs from Mongolian Permaculture Project 2010. Other images selected from Ladakh to show passive solar greenhouse design successfully operating year-round to minus-25C. Students will apply design principles to explore & discuss what can be improved in these designs in order to adapt to harsher Mongolian conditions. Glass and plastic bottles are available as waste products that are thrown away in the soum; examples of greenhouse, coldframes and cloches made from repurposed waste plastic bottles are shown. Finally, images of existing greenhouses in Bayan Ulgii are shown, to be used as a class design exercise exploring 'What is working / What isn't working / How can the design be improved?' Final version will be translated into Russian language, as most residents of Bayan Ulgii are literate in Kazakh, Russian, and Mongolian languages.

1. Passive Solar Greenhouse Design.
Bayan Ulgii, Outer Mongolia 2011

2. Principles:
Ventilation
Insulation
Relative Location
Thermal
Mass
Circulation
Aspect

3. Principles:
Ventilation
Insulation
Relative Location
Thermal
Mass
Circulation
Aspect

4. Principles:

5. Principles:
Ventilation
Insulation
Thermal
Mass
Relative Location
Circulation
Aspect

6. Example:
Ladakh.
photo credits: http://solargreenhouse.org

7. Ulgii Soum:
Available Materials.
photo credit: http://plasticisntnice.blogspot.com
photo credit: http://cdn.dornob.com/
photo credit: http://www.instablogsimages.com/

8. Ulgii Soum: photo credit: 3.bp.blogspot.com
Available Materials.
photo credit: gardenwithpassion.com
photo credit: brysoneducation.org
photo credit: 1.bp.blogspot.com

9. Example:
Ulgii.
photo credits: Michelle Abel, 2010

10. Example:
Ulgii.
photo credits: http://solargreenhouse.org