Understanding the movement of the sun is essential to effective passive design.

Drawing on a deep interest in astronomy from high school, Anderson created the sun simulator from an available packing box.

While there are loads of ways to simulate the suns path in digital models, passive solar design is an area of study that benefits from going analogue.

With a simple adjustment for the latitude of the site, the sun simulator uses sun light anywhere to mimic the sun’s shadows and extensions around an architectural model exactly like they would be for the real situation…. for any time and day of the year.