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7.41-7.42 Triangle window designs stand out

7.41.USA-10-detail-b New England Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design:

We can learn from an energy-smart river house.

This sketch illustrates a “fish-scale” house in New Jersey, just south of Manhattan. The house watches over the river and also includes a solarium porch. For the summer, an operable shade protects the glass. I do not understand why today the mass market is so reluctant to use the sun to help heat our houses. Given the increased efficiency of furnaces, we do not have to use the sun, but with rising costs of energy (typically 3 percent per year over the past half century), at some point we may want to use the sun. The fish-scale shingles on this river house are well suited to their context, since this house in on the water, and there are fish in the river. The triangle window is appealing, and it reminds me of a flag on a boat or at a sailing marina or yacht club. This triangle window also reminds me of the geometric shaped windows in Japan. For comparison, an excerpt from Japan 5: Detail (b) is here:

7.42.USA-10-detail-Japan

This drawing from Japan is included in the USA Gallery, because it is specifically referenced in the description of 7.41 USA for comparison to a triangle window in New Jersey.

7.39.USA-10-Horizontal-with-Figure

The figure outline in this image is for scale to illustrate the size of the fold-out field drawing. The descriptions of certain key elements and insights are included with the accompanying drawings in this section.

Author and illustrator: Charlie Szoradi is an architect, inventor, and the CEO of Independence LED Lighting. He writes about many other topics related to different style windows like this triangle window 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 triangle window design and other shapes, we hope that you enjoy exploring LearnfromLooking.com. You can search via general terms such as sustainability as well as narrower terms such as triangle window and transom window.

 

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