Between 11 November and 2 February the sun disappears in Viganella, an Italian Alpine village, that was built at the bottom of a steep valley. Three months the inhabitants of Viganella have to live without solar irradiation.
From now on Viganella is maybe the first and only village equipped with a heliostat. A motorised mirror (about 5m width) tracks the sun and reflects it to the main square of Viganella: the first winter sun ever in the village's 800 years of existence.
December 18, 2006
Sunrise in Viganella - Reflecting Sun.
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Christoph ,anarchitecture
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This is similar to Japanese systems where they use fiberoptics on top of buildings to pipe daylight throughout the building. People need their sun
I presume there is water running through the valley. If that's the case, I wonder how the winter sun will affect the natural cycle happening in the stream/river. Excess algea in warmer months?
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