SUN TRAP HOUSES
SOME INGENIOUS DEVICES Many and ingenious plans for houses have been devised with the idea of securing a maximum amount of sunlight 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 operable from within, and circular gutters to take away the roof water and soil drainage to appropriate points of discharge. It was very awkward when the Inhabitants of the various rooms all wanted sunlight 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 find that the front door was at the other end of the diameter from where you found it last time, and that you were compelled to pass all the windows before you located it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 871, 15 January 1930, Page 7
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