What’s on the Shading Devices poster
A 6-row table: Device · Best on · Blocks.
Match the geometry of the device to the geometry of the sun.
- Horizontal overhang — Equator side — High summer sun
- Vertical fins — East and west — Low morning, evening
- Egg-crate louvres — Hot climates — Both, at a cost
- External blinds — Any facade — Most, if operated
- Internal blinds — Last resort — Glare, not heat
- Trees — Equator side — Summer, not winter
Shading is far more effective outside the glass. Once solar radiation is through the glazing, the heat is already indoors.
Questions about the Shading Devices poster
- What’s on the Shading Devices poster?
- A 6-row table: Device · Best on · Blocks. Match the geometry of the device to the geometry of the sun. Horizontal overhang — Equator side — High summer sun; Vertical fins — East and west — Low morning, evening; Egg-crate louvres — Hot climates — Both, at a cost; External blinds — Any facade — Most, if operated; Internal blinds — Last resort — Glare, not heat; Trees — Equator side — Summer, not winter. Shading is far more effective outside the glass. Once solar radiation is through the glazing, the heat is already indoors.
- Who is the Shading Devices poster for?
- Shading Devices belongs to the Architecture section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning environmental design can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Shading Devices poster?
- Use it once orientation is fixed. The wrong device on a facade does almost nothing. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Shading Devices belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Shading Devices?
- Airtightness, Embodied Carbon and Orientation sit alongside Shading Devices in the Architecture section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AirtightnessEmbodied CarbonOrientation
- Is the Shading Devices poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Shading Devices downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Architecture section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Shading Devices poster print at?
- Shading Devices is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Shading Devices loses nothing.Printing guide
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