What’s on the Passivhaus poster
A 6-row table: Criterion · Requirement.
Educational reference. Criteria are set by the Passivhaus Institut.
- Space heating demand — 15 kWh per m2 per year
- Airtightness — 0.6 air changes per hour at 50 Pa
- Opaque element U-value — typically 0.15 or lower
- Window U-value, installed — typically 0.80 or lower
- Ventilation — Mechanical, with heat recovery
- Overheating — Limited hours above 25 degrees
Educational reference only. It certifies performance, not appearance; check current criteria before applying any figure.
Questions about the Passivhaus poster
- What’s on the Passivhaus poster?
- A 6-row table: Criterion · Requirement. Educational reference. Criteria are set by the Passivhaus Institut. Space heating demand — 15 kWh per m2 per year; Airtightness — 0.6 air changes per hour at 50 Pa; Opaque element U-value — typically 0.15 or lower; Window U-value, installed — typically 0.80 or lower; Ventilation — Mechanical, with heat recovery; Overheating — Limited hours above 25 degrees. Educational reference only. It certifies performance, not appearance; check current criteria before applying any figure.
- Who is the Passivhaus poster for?
- Passivhaus belongs to the Architecture section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning environmental design can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Passivhaus poster?
- Use it as a reference point for how demanding a genuinely low-energy fabric target is. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Passivhaus belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Passivhaus?
- Airtightness, Embodied Carbon and Orientation sit alongside Passivhaus in the Architecture section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AirtightnessEmbodied CarbonOrientation
- Is the Passivhaus poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Passivhaus downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Architecture section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Passivhaus poster print at?
- Passivhaus is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Passivhaus loses nothing.Printing guide
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