comms... not sure on how it would work in the low humidity of Arizona, but you might look at plans for a Florida Cracker homes...some modern plans with 1900's non air conditioning design
Thanks for the tip, I just found
this housein Florida. It was built to be self sufficient back in the late 90's. New technologhy would make it even better now.
I've been wanting to build a more energy-friendly home here in Houston and have been looking for old-time house plans. I figured they had already figured out how to optimize non-electrity-based cooling.
-Blast