Hello again;
I have the opportunity to design some ultra low cost
housing for slum resettlement. Just because they are low
cost doesn't mean they can't be cool places to live.
here are a few ideas I have:
1. I could orient the houses to true north. The east or west
walls could have a long
How about this:
On one of the buildings, design a southern facing roof. Angle the roof so
that it is equal to the latitude. Then place a gnomon on the roof and make
the entire southern roof into a giant polar sundial. Everyone in the
village would be able to see and use it.
John C.
Hi John;
That's a cool idea for the community center, thanks.
It might be a challenge the closer we get to the equator as
it might be hard to view.
I was thinking about roof pitch also. If my southern
facing roof was pitched 90 degrees to my co-latitude it
would be parallel to the earths' axis.
- Original Message -
From: Frank King frank.k...@cl.cam.ac.uk
To: Reinhold Kriegler reinhold.krieg...@gmx.de
Cc: sund...@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: AW: Year-round day saving time
Dear Reinhold,
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Oh. One more thing. Mike says...
If we
Brent,
I wonder if rather than orienting all the houses to the same orientation
if this is not an opportunity to utilize the collection of houses (if of a
sufficient number) as a pieces of an aggregate dial. For instance, one could
create ten shadow plane dials from ten houses, each registering a
Those of us who were fortunate enough to visit the home of Mark and Arabella
Lennox-Boyd when we went on the BSS safari to Italy will remember how his
house (Meridiana) was built as a sundial.
Have a look at:
http://www.bolkovonschweinichen.it/inglese/meridiana/index.html
Mike Shaw
53'22N
Hi Bret,
A Birthday window what a good idea. Maybe something smaller like a wall vent
could be turned into a Birthday Window. I wouldn't want to blacken out a
full size window.
Roderick Wall.
-Original Message-
From: Brent
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:02 AM
To: John
