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The Vermeil Room was originally a staff work room used for storage and later for the tasks of polishing silver. Theodore Roosevelt's 1902 renovation of the White House by architect Charles Follen McKim reconfigured the use of the house, finishing much of the ground floor for public use.
The purpose of passive solar energy use is to gain solar radiation inside a building and to use it for heating. To this end, the sun must be able to enter the main rooms. This has many implications: site of ground, building orientation, building form, distances and heights of neighbouring buildings.