Comments on: A sundog for the shortest days of the year

By: cj

cj — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:48:37 +0000

The zome pictured is alive and well and happily still inhabited by the original builders. It has gone through a few mostly-cosmetic changes, but continues to be functional and beautiful. I have had the pleasure of visiting the zome and can honestly say that the interior space is beautiful. They have been using Sunbenders as long as the house has been in existence and they definitely help light the interior during the winter and keep the heat (but not light) out during the summer.

By: zomezomezomezomezome

zomezomezomezomezome — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:31:28 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:48:35 +0000

There’s a geometric construction toy called Zome (or Zometool). Now wondering if I’ve mentioned George Hart before? He makes good use of Zome to help visualise things before he makes his geometric sculptures.

See http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/sculpture.html

In a similar vein: http://www.bathsheba.com/

Now going back to look at the furoshiki or whatever it was called… All that material looks far too good to have just been making use of stuff that was lying around, but I like the idea of inviting my whole family to gift-give that way and keep whatever material we receive to wrap things next time around…

By: LB

LB — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:07:24 +0000

Colin, thanks for that excellent link. Completely sci-fi, but a great idea! I guess the aristocracy in the castle always had sun in winter, but the lowlier types in the town below did not have that privilege. I’m glad to see the mayor is rectifying this. And I agree, long live zomes! So much ancient architecture already worked on this principle – conserving heat in winter, avoiding it in summer – but it seems that oil has made our building practices careless and lazy. It’ll be interesting to see if governments decide to get their heads out of the sand and start seriously supporting R&D for alternate energy and enery-saving devices. And I’d like to see businesses like Zomeworks – working for 40 years in alternative energy – receive more recognition.

By: Colin Chudyk

Colin Chudyk — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:11:19 +0000

Have you heard of Rattenberg, Austria? Kind of a mega-scale version of the sundog to light up the whole town. I remember reading this snippet from the Walrus a couple years ago.

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.01-field-notes-austria-village/

Long live zomes!