suncokret

shadow study, sheet 01

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roof plane in sun in shadow ground, shadowed and in sun hatched: 2008 capture, one roof plane for the whole building

How much sunlight reaches each roof plane, and when buildings take it. It does not estimate electricity: nobody publishes per-roof generation for Zagreb, so there is nothing to check such a figure against.

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Nine drawings of the same blocks of central Zagreb, seen from the south-west: three times of day across and three dates down. Each label below gives the date, the time and where the sun is. Select a roof in a drawing, or use the buttons under the drawings.

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12:00
15:00
21 December
21 March
21 June

Pick a roof plane

Select any roof in the drawing above.

Day of year across, Zagreb clock hour up.