Clerestory--A clerestory, pronounced clear story, is a high wall with a bank of narrow windows along the very top. The clerestory wall usually rises above adjoining roofs.
To get lots of light in the house without getting too much direct sunlight on the art, we designed a clerestory the entire way around the bridge, on the north and east sides of the guest pod, and on the north and west sides of the main pod. There will be 3 foot overhangs all the way around that block the direct sun but still allow indirect reflected light.
Ellen finally was able to get me to understand that when you have a non-rectilinear form like a trapezoid and you have a constant roof slope that is not a hyperbolic paraboloid, one main side of the trapezoid will need to be constant height and the other increasing in height from one end to the other to meet the roof.
You can see this easily if you place a slopped piece of paper over a trapezoidal shape. Our solution was to have rectilinear windows on the South side of the bridge and trapezoidal ones on the North.
They have been rough framing the clerestory this week and have finished about half of it.
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
--Garry Winogrand
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