“Only primitives and barbarians lack knowledge of houses turned to face the winter sun.”
–Aeschylus
“Now, supposing a house to have a southern aspect, sunshine during winter will steal in under the verandah, but in summer, when the sun traverses a path right over our heads, the roof will afford an agreeable shade,
will it not?”
–Socrates
Our approach to regenerative design combines lessons from nature and nature’s energy cycles with ancient wisdom.
Ancient Greeks teach us the importance of orienting a building to the sun.
Ancient cultures the world around provide a bounty of examples of how to provide thermal comfort.
By designing architecture that functions like a tree that responds to how the sun moves through the sky and absorbs heat energy directly from the sun and stores the energy within the structure without complex mechanisms that fail and need to be replaced every 20 years or less.
