TRAPPING SUNLIGHT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19852, 13 February 1930, Page 4

TRAPPING SUNLIGHT.

SOME CLEVER DEVICES. Many ingenious plans for houses have been devised with the idea of securing a maximum amount of sufllight in the living rooms. The usual device is to get a house so planned that the rooms have a maximum amount of external walling. That is expensive, and leads to a broken-up and restless effect. One ingenious designer constructed his house on a central pivot, and made the whole place to revolve on a turntable with brakes operatable from within and circular gutters to take awav the roof water and soil drainage to appropriate points of discharge. It was very awkward when the inhabitants of the various rooms all wansunlight at the same time, or wanted to avoid it. There is usually something wrong with the "gadget" house, and the something is sometimes very serious. Imagine calling at the circular house to S that the front door was at the other end of the diameter from where ?ou found it last time and that you were compelled to pass the windows of 3l the offices before you located it.