#sun path

It felt like being a REAL PERSON in a life where so much of me is locked in a metaphorical closet.

I decided today that whether it's today, or tomorrow, or five years from now, or ten, or even twenty - someday, I'm going to live my entire life like this.

Roman Calendar (Fasti Vallenses) - ISAW

You know, the solstices is actually kind of important to architects. Never really thought about that, but we spent a lot of time studying it last term. 

So much is designed around the angle of light - eaves of buildings, for instance, are often designed at just the right angle/width so that the low angle of winter light fully hits the window to heat the inside, but during the summer months, it shades the whole window to keep it cool. Energy control using the sun’s natural path across the sky.

We use sun-path diagrams to track what angle the sun is at at a given latitude over the course of the year, it’s REALLY COOL. 

Red sun setting.