Christoph Reinhart and Andrew Sang with support from MIT's Astronomy Department

An analemma is a curve that represents the changing angular offset of a celestial body. This particular project maps the Sun's path in the sky by montaging 365 photos. One photo for every day of the year taken at the same solar time each day. The big dome of MIT is directly underneath the analemma, and because the analemma respresents a single year, the entire photo depicts MIT's continuing academic excellence over the course of a year. This photo was made possible as a joint collaboration between the Sustainable Design Lab and MIT's Astronomy Department.

The photos taken during this project can also be used to map the path of the sun over the dome for each day of the year. The resulting images clearly show how the altitude and azimuth of the sun change each day across the year. The net of paths produced from the sum of these images will also be on display at the end of this year long project.

1 - Solar analemma over MIT's big dome. --Work in progress--

2 - Sixty-seven architecture students sketched the daylit area in the 2nd floor studio.