Friday, February 21, 2020

The Old-School Contraption That Simulated the Sun Passing Over a House

Prior to modeling software, architects needed a way to determine how the passing of the sun would affect houses they were working on. The solution was the  heliodon, a sun emulator that accurately demonstrated the motion of the sun relative to a building for designing solar aware architecture.



Source: Core77
Via @KufferPit

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