ABSTRACT
The emerging fact is that anybody seriously concerned with future policies and designs governing building must consider solar energy as a way to temper the constructed environment. Useful energy-receiving building forms are virtually shadow-free during the winter months when they are used to store and transmit energy to the living spaces. As a legal framework for these efforts they seem to prefer building codes and zoning laws that determine how their projects will act rather than how they will look. If solar access is to be guaranteed, the legal questions raised earlier will require a clarification or change of existing laws or even new laws. Under circumstances of small scale and simple processes there is a second fairly direct correlation with local administration of the law. The local building official operating on a one-to-one relationship with the contractor can more easily deal with the problems of solar allocation if the means are clearly prescribed.
