At 09:06 27/06/2000 +1000, John D Hall wrote:
>Hi Tony
>
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>For many years architects have been trained to use a stereo sunpath diagram
>which is essentially the Oughtred dial reversed. Alas most architects then
>fail to make use of the sun - you can take a horse to water but you cannot
>make it drink ;-)
>
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How true.
The worst offenders, however are Bank architects/building services designers
who take no note of the sun when installing ATM's. As a result the ATM
screens are unreadable at certain times of the day/year.
On a recent visit to Malta I noticed little parasolles above the ATM's -
very cute!
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