Reply #153: silly story

[sweetheart]

I've designed and built over the past year a special light room

with huge windows facing the rugged ocean and a ceiling with

6 downlight light edison-screw fixtures. These i will put a mixture
of screw in bulbs, namely mains-halogen and sun-spectrum. It is
the hubris of architecture to build a warm tropical beach room
with a massive windows on to the north arctic coastline.

2. That houses are poorly oriented for solar energy and winter light
is the tragic folly of scottish architecture. WIth a newbuild, i'll
orient the house towards the south so that even at low-angles, the
sun creates a full-light feeling. The use of natural rooflight
to overcome SAD is totally unexplored, IMO in architecture.

I intend a house built to the actual solar orbits, so that in
darkest days, it is most lit, and in the 22 hour days, it shelters
more. Also, i'll have a large light source in the center of the
open middle of the house, so that from an artificial sun can make
the winter days slightly longer.

I'm a firm believer in technology and its merits. SAD is in my
sights... after a few years of trying various sunlamps.