Reena I know nothing about the sundial in the photo that you sent. However I suspect design changes during turning a good design into a bad one.
I'm a design draftsman of 20 years. I'm very familiar how a good design goes bad. Often, design change decisions are made by a committee or budget adjustment and not the designer. Draftsmen often get forced into making a bad design by people that have little design experience. I suspect that's the case because a raised marker so low to the ground is such an obvious trip hazard that I don't believe it was originally designed that way. I imagine the hour markers were going to be at least 300 mm tall Cheers Donald Christensen 0423 102 090 www.sundialsforlearning.com This e-mail is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Un-authorizeduse of this email is subject to penalty of law. So there! On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Reena Gagneja <[email protected]>wrote: > > Dear List Members (especially in UK), > > I am intending to compile a list of sundials, in public places - which > people do NOT like, either because it is inaccurate or badly designed. > > > Does anyone have further information on this 'Analemmatic' layout, at > Colne (see attached photograph) - in terms of the Client, or Designer? > > I have managed to establish that the component-parts were supplied by > a company (in Yorkshire), named "Fosstone" - but I would like to know > who 'commissioned' it, or designed the layout of the stone pieces. > > > All I have been able to find on the internet are basically negative > comments about it - being "a waste of public money", an "obstruction", > "danger to pedestrians", etc. Why would anyone create such a feature > which is not 'vehicle-friendly', and potentially dangerous if people > were to trip on it? Why not simply set all its parts 'flush' with > the ground-level, instead of having that central section raised up? > > Apart from anything else, the cost would have been much reduced. > > > With my thanks, in advance - for any further information, on this. > > > Sincerely, > > Reena Gagneja. > > > -- > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >
--------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
