Sentence examples for solar orientation from inspiring English sources
The Mooreland Glen site, with its gentle slope and broad southeastern orientation, allows for natural surface drainage, solar orientation and protection from cold winter winds.
And sites are now evaluated for solar orientation and prevailing winds, both of which can heavily affect energy use, he said.
In addition, results reinforce optimizing solar orientation for planning and design of suburban housing.
This analysis evaluates the cost and energy performance of existing suburban communities using optimal solar orientation.
In the middle period, about 1050 1680, statues were deliberately destroyed and discarded, and all ahus were rebuilt with no regard for solar orientation or masonry fitting.
"Given the long history of solar orientation in architectural design, I don't suppose it is unreasonable for people to have assumed that the Wedge of Light would be illuminated by direct sunlight on Sept. 11," he said.
The daylighting analysis was based on computational simulations with daylighting programs, for different combinations of days, schedules and building solar orientations.
Symmetrical urban canyons, with various height-to-width ratios (i.e. H/W=0.5, 1, 2 and 4) and different solar orientations (i.e. E W, N S, NE SW and NW SE), have been studied.
The analyses of the distribution of sunrise and sunset dates corresponding to solar orientations, as well as of the intervening intervals, support the idea that the orientations recorded the dates separated by multiples of 13 and 20 days, allowing the use of easily manageable observational calendars intended to facilitate a proper scheduling of agricultural activities and the associated rituals.
The urban settings are represented by symmetrical street canyons (380 m long, 9 m width), with different solar orientations (i.e. N S, NE SW, E W, NW SE) and aspect ratios (i.e. H/W = 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Using a binomial test I show strong evidence that there is a preference for solar orientations.
