Hello Lloyd, I'm sure there are many on this mailing list who will offer ideas for your exciting project. Orienting the walls due north/south etc would probably make the sundial design easiest. 22.5 degrees to that would, perhaps, be more interesting. Can you please help us by telling us the latitude of the house. The sundial geometry is greatly affected by latitude, as I'm sure you can appreciate. Also, do you have an unobstructed view of the sky in the directions in which the sun rises and sets, or are there hills / buildings / whatever in the way?
Best wishes Chris Lusby Taylor 51.4N 1.3W ----- Original Message ----- From: Lloyd Tackitt To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:53 PM Subject: Ideas Sought Hello! I am in the early planning stages of building an Octagon house. The house will have a central fireplace. I have no building restrcitions and can orient the house any way I choose - I do have a great river view directly to the South that will be the main focus of the house. In designing this house it occurred to me that it would be interesting to align the house with the 8 points of the compass, and then it occurred to me that there are many things that I could do with this, if I but had the knowledge. Such as, design the house as a live in sunddial, or astronomical calendar with shadow line(s) falling on solstices marked on the central fireplace, equinoxes, eclipses, what have you. However, I am ignorant on the subjects above and am seeking ideas to incorporate into the design. I am about a year from starting construction, so now is the time to plan this out. Any and all suggestions are welcomed! Thank you Lloyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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