The house where the Sundial Association of Flanders (Belgium) has his headquarter is a "sundial house" (in Dutch: 'zonnewijzerhuis') The entire facade (wall inclination 133°) is shaped as a sundial. You can see pictures in the inventory of sundials in Flanders at http://www.astrolemma.be/p_inventaris.html Click on the first title in the first column: 'Inventaris per gemeente / deelgemeente" to become a pdf-file. In that pdf-file search with keyword "zonnewijzerhuis". It gives you page 392 with the pictures.
See also at http://www.gnomonica.be/en/gnomonicaFlaFE.html Willy Leenders Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium) Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders) with a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch): http://www.wijzerweb.be Op 29-mrt-2011, om 16:20 heeft Brent het volgende geschreven: > 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 horizontal window that could act as > a sunrise/sunset calendar. The window could have a center > mullion that would cast a shadow on the wall around the > room which could be marked as a calendar. > > 2. Orient the gables north and south and leave the gable > ends exposed with no overhanging eaves and set vertical > dials on the north or south or both. Maybe I could make a > stencil or two and simply paint on dial faces. Or show the > new owners how to do that and let them mark their own. > > I would appreciate any other ideas. > They just need to be inexpensive and simple to use. > > Here is a cool saying that seems appropriate: > > Sol Lucet Omnibus > The Sun Shines for Everyone > > brent > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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