The Outside-In House is a residential design concept for living comfortably and conveniently in securely-defined spaces that provide outside-air thermal comfort conditions within the traditional interior residential setting. The house allows for human thermal comfort to be maintained in a hot-arid climate through the implementation of natural environmental thermal control principles. Ultimately, by constructing hot-arid climate homes to achieve human thermal comfort without the need for air-conditioning, a substantial reduction in the amount of non-renewable energy will result. The reduced consumption of underground, fossil fuel resources will ultimately make the world a better place. Creative use of traditional passive climatic architectural responses such as wind scoops, natural ventilation, deep shading, and thermal mass, are reintroduced as architectural concepts for the Outside-In House. Newly developed architectural design strategies as well as lesser known traditional design strategies are presented as passive ways to thermally condition the Outside-In House.
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