FOREVER FOLLOWING THE SUN / DIVISIONS OF ROOMS ACCORDING TO A CENTER IN MOTION

The aspiration that leads us in the design of the house is that all the rooms of the house will receive the sun rays to the maximum. If so, the ideal painting would have been, if the house had been built on an axis, and every time we had moved between the different rooms, the whole house would have rotated, and the rotation would have stopped while the sun would have been shining into that specific room we are in. So indeed, the purpose of a house is permanence and stability and therefore it is not built in such a kinetic fashion. However, the house can be built permanently, and at the same time make the best use of the sun's rays.

This form of construction is called a 'moving center', and it notices that there is no single central place for the house, but the center moves and changes around the clock: in the morning, when you get up and go to work, you go to the kitchen to get ready for the new day; In the afternoon return from work and rest in the living room, where most of the activity takes place at this time; And at night lie down to sleep in the bedroom and it becomes the center of the house.

According to the 'Light at Home' program, the center of the house is in the world with the sun and wind, as seen in the following drawing:

In the morning the sun shines in the south-east, so the kitchen that serves as the center of the house in the morning, is located in the southeast corner of the house; In the afternoon the sun is in the south-west, and when the grownups return from work and sit in the living room, they enjoy the rays of the sun penetrating into the living room of the house, which is located in the south-west corner of the house.

Even at night, after the sun sets, you are with the sun, because after sunset, the sun turns north. Just as during the day the sun turns west through the south side, so at night it turns east through the north side. It turns out that even at night when you are in the bedroom, you get the energies of the sun that are 'below' the earth on the northern side.

According to this plan, the residents 'move' across parts of the house along with the natural movement of the sun, just like the sunflower that rotates its face according to the movement of the sun.

On the other hand, designing a home without reference to the solar orbit, may infuse its occupants with darkness, which will inevitably have a negative effect on the mood, vitality and atmosphere in the home.

If you build the bedrooms in the south, for example, then during the day, during peak hours of activity in which a flow of energy, heat and light is appropriate, the person is on the north side, shaded and cold.

Or, for example, when a building is built of a 'block' of two adjoining houses, connected by a wall between the East and the West - the ‘western house’ has no experience of morning because it is detached from the rising sun at sunrise, and the eastern house has no experience of evening, because it is never illuminated by the rays of the setting sun.

Such a house, in which life is without sunset or without sunrise, even if it very hi-tech and fancy, lacks the most important basis of a house - the connection to nature.