6.37.Hungary-4-detail-h Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design
We can rethink natural ventilation and shading.
This sketch includes the house on the right that belonged to one of my relatives, until it was taken over by the Soviets and turned into a retirement home. In previous sketchbook excerpt notes, I have described and illustrated windows that have transoms (windows over windows), and this is another example. The window detail to the left of the façade highlights a double thick wall and pull chord on the right side to extend and retract the shading devise. Overall, using light intelligently has become a fascination that attracted me to the light-emitting diode (LED) technology and all of its energy-saving potential. Plus, “light harvesting” capabilities recently caught my attention, given available dimming and photo cells that adjust with the balance of available natural light in any given season, month, day, and time of day.
Author and illustrator: Charlie Szoradi is an architect, inventor, and the CEO of Independence LED Lighting. He writes about many other topics related to windows with transoms through his extensive travels around the world.
If you have found this posting online, it is an excerpt from Mr. Szoradi’s book Learn from Looking that served as the inspiring seed content for this drawing share resource. For additional drawings and insights on natural ventilation with transoms over windows, we hope that you enjoy exploring LearnfromLooking.com. You can search via general terms such as sustainability as well as narrower terms such as transoms as light harvesting.
