I wonder why people don’t build very narrow, very tall apartment buildings, with the broad face facing the sun arc. Then all appartments get lots of sun; on the back you have hallways and such.
Not everyone wants all the rooms to have direct sunlight all of the time!
I prefer my bedroom to face north so that I can sleep well (it’s hard to get curtains that block direct sunlight that well).
I don’t want direct sunlight in the room where I’m working on a computer. In fact I mostly want big windows from which I can see a lot of sky (for a lot of indirect sunlight) but very little direct sunlight.
I don’t think I’m alone in that. I see a lot of south-facing windows are blocking the direct sunlight a lot of the time.
Things like patios are nice. You can’t have them this way.
Very narrow and tall structures are less stable than wider structures.
how would that work in the shadow cast by such buildings? the taller the building, the farther apart you’d have to space them for everyone to actually get sun.
I wonder why people don’t build very narrow, very tall apartment buildings, with the broad face facing the sun arc. Then all appartments get lots of sun; on the back you have hallways and such.
I don’t know but I can offer some guesses:
Not everyone wants all the rooms to have direct sunlight all of the time!
I prefer my bedroom to face north so that I can sleep well (it’s hard to get curtains that block direct sunlight that well).
I don’t want direct sunlight in the room where I’m working on a computer. In fact I mostly want big windows from which I can see a lot of sky (for a lot of indirect sunlight) but very little direct sunlight.
I don’t think I’m alone in that. I see a lot of south-facing windows are blocking the direct sunlight a lot of the time.
Things like patios are nice. You can’t have them this way.
Very narrow and tall structures are less stable than wider structures.
[These things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stellladen_Roll_fcm.jpg) are pretty much ubiquitous in Italy in buildings since circa 1970s, and [these ones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Villa_Olmi_K.jpg) (which are somewhat less effective but still way better than a curtain) in earlier buildings.
how would that work in the shadow cast by such buildings? the taller the building, the farther apart you’d have to space them for everyone to actually get sun.
Oh yeah. Well I guess it depends on the latitude.