Orientation - Part 3

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And then the north, the big question on the north is really gonna be "Do we want to have windows there "in order to get natural dispersed light?" The disadvantage of having windows on the north in much of the country, it's not really gonna matter, but if you're in places that get relatively cold for up in Minneapolis or in Fargo or in Idaho or in Chicago or in New England, for in any of those kinds of places, putting a bunch of windows in order just to get that sort of lovely natural indirect light, but those windows are likely to be pretty terrible from an insulating standpoint, so I'm gonna be just giving away heat to the outside through that whole winter. That's a balance and it make not make so much sense. So in the northern climes and the cold climates, you'll often see that the north facades tend to have very few windows in order to not give out so much of the heat that's been made the condition into that space, but we'll have quite a lot of south facing windows in order to gain as much as the solar gain as they can in that winter time.

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