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Music, hey Eric here with 30 by 48 Design Workshop. I wanted to talk about how architects use the sun to influence their designs. But rather than speak in generalities, I wanted to use a detail from our project to show you how it works in practice. Before we get into the detail, you'll need a little background. One of the most responsible things you can do as an architect is to listen, and that, for me, always begins with the site, the climate, geography, wind patterns, and of course, the sun. Architecture is nothing without light and it's perhaps the most important organizing force for our work. It's usually where I start my site analysis by diagramming the path of the sun as an overlay on the site plan. I'll get into the specifics on how I do this in a minute. The predominant solar orientation, where the most direct sunlight comes from here in the northern hemisphere, is the south. So, the more of our building that can face south, the more efficiently we're able to capture and use the sun for natural light and passive heating, and even cooling, as we'll see in a minute. This approach not only saves energy by reducing lighting, heating, and cooling costs, but it's also better for our own health and well-being. For this project, a lot was sloping, and rather along with the neighboring residents close by to the north, the views to the ocean were all off to the east. With an east-facing site like this, you're faced with a dilemma. Do you orient the long axis of the building north and south to give the client the view of the ocean they requested from every room, or do you deny the water view in favor of a more...