Pocket Sundial

Design tool for solar studies

Project Description

The pocket sundial is an inexpensive tool that architects can use to test the solar aspects of designs under development. The sundial is placed on an architectural model, which is then taken out into the sun, and tilted to model for different times of day, and different times of the year. The sundial is read as the model is tilted, showing the designer the exact hour and month the shadows on the model represent.

This project was designed for the PG&E's Pacific Energy Center, which distributed the device as a brochure with an accompanying plastic case. Users cut out a paper template that is printed as one of the brochure panels, and fit it into the included plastic case. The brochure, printed on Quest stock, included instructions for assembly and use.

My role: Art direction, editing, and illustration.