Room for DramaOutside, Actually.

Los Angeles (demonstration)

The roof terrace with nothing to hide behind

DemonstrationEdit the plan

When the terrace table is open for dinner outside

Each month read on its 15th · 2026
Dinner outside, through the year. The terrace table cannot be read for dinner outside in any month yet. 0 months open, 0 shut, 12 unanswered.JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec0months open
  • Works
  • Tight
  • No
  • Unanswered

Rings run from 3 pm at the centre to 11 pm at the edge.

The terrace table cannot be read for dinner outside in any month yet.

  • All year: cannot be answered, because privacy exposure has not been recorded here.
The same year as a table
MonthOpenUsable hoursWhat decides it
January——Privacy exposure closes it
February——Privacy exposure closes it
March——Privacy exposure closes it
April——Privacy exposure closes it
May——Privacy exposure closes it
June——Privacy exposure closes it
July——Privacy exposure closes it
August——Privacy exposure closes it
September——Privacy exposure closes it
October——Privacy exposure closes it
November——Privacy exposure closes it
December——Privacy exposure closes it
The bayParapet3.6 ftWest parapet3.6 ftStair head8.5 ftThe terrace table8° upN16 ft
BuildingNot yoursCanopyShadow nowCan see inProposed

Reading at

6:35 PM·September
September 14 · The terrace table

The evidence behind this whole day is thin, so nothing on the strip is marked out as worse than the rest. The shape of the day is still the model’s best reading; the confidence in it is low, and it stays low until something it needs is measured.

The terrace table cannot be answered for dinner outside yet.

Nothing in September clears what dinner outside needs here.

The same day as a table
The same day hour by hour, in text.
HourSunVerdictConfidenceSun position
12:00 AMdarkUnanswereda starting hypothesis
3:00 AMdarkUnanswereda starting hypothesis
6:00 AMdarkUnanswereda starting hypothesis
7:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis1° up, bearing 87°
8:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis13° up, bearing 96°
9:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis24° up, bearing 106°
10:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis35° up, bearing 118°
11:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis45° up, bearing 133°
12:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis52° up, bearing 153°
1:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis55° up, bearing 178°
2:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis53° up, bearing 203°
3:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis47° up, bearing 224°
4:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis37° up, bearing 240°
5:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis26° up, bearing 252°
6:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis15° up, bearing 262°
7:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis3° up, bearing 272°
9:00 PMdarkUnanswereda starting hypothesis

Sit down, eat, and still want to be there ninety minutes later.

Dinner outside

We cannot say yet whether The terrace table works for dinner outside, because privacy exposure is still unanswered.

  • Glare is27 over— 55 / 100 against at most 28

    You cannot look at the person across the table with the sun behind their head.

  • Wind is2.6 mph over— 11.6 mph against at most 8.9 mph

    Wind takes napkins, candles and conversation before it takes comfort.

Still unanswered:Privacy exposureNoise

Confidence low (38%). Treat this as a starting hypothesis, not an answer.

What this answer was built from
  • Use
    Dinner outside
  • Place
    The terrace table
  • Weather
    Coastal Mediterranean, dry summers, salt air (scenario shape), scenario (from a published source)
  • Method
    Traced geometry and radiation at this hour, measured against what this use needs
    • Try a changeMake a document

    How well this place is described

    Mapped
    1. Quick
    2. Mapped
    3. Annotated
    4. Measured

    Shade, sky view and daily light are computed from real geometry rather than assumed. This is the rung at which the product starts telling you things you did not already know.

    It cannot answer who can see in, and it cannot tell you whether the heights it is using are the real ones.

    To reach Annotated

    • Photographs of the actual place: None annotated. A photograph is how a drawn height gets checked against a real one.
    • Photographs that know where they were taken from: No photograph has a position and a bearing, so what is marked on them cannot become a measurement.
    • Who can see in: Nobody marked. Privacy is a question about who sees in from where, and the product will not invent one.

    What that buys: The privacy question, and a check on the geometry. Most inferred heights are wrong by enough to matter, and a photograph settles it in a minute.

    Everything that was checked
    • Quick A place on the earth: Los Angeles (demonstration), with a time zone, which is what makes an hour an hour.
    • Quick Somewhere to read: 1 spot marked. A reading is a height at a place, and moving it moves the answer.
    • Mapped The things in the way: 3 objects drawn. The house counts, and so does the neighbour's.
    • Mapped What is underfoot: 1 of 1 readings sit on a mapped surface.
    • Mapped Where the property ends: Drawn, so the product can tell you when the cheapest fix stands on someone else's land.
    • Annotated Photographs of the actual place: None annotated. A photograph is how a drawn height gets checked against a real one.
    • Annotated Photographs that know where they were taken from: No photograph has a position and a bearing, so what is marked on them cannot become a measurement.
    • Annotated Who can see in: Nobody marked. Privacy is a question about who sees in from where, and the product will not invent one.
    • Measured Heights off a tape: 2 of 3 objects are measured. The remaining 1 are this product's own inference, so no figure here is a survey figure yet.
    • Measured Something checked against the day: Nothing has been checked against a real afternoon. The model is unopposed, which is not the same as being right.

    What to measure next

    Ranked by how far the answer moves, not by a checklist
    1. 1Who can actually see inSit in the chair

      Sit where you actually sit and look around. Mark the one window or path you can see a person from. Until one exists, privacy is a question we are not answering rather than one that is fine.

      This is not a refinement. Nothing can answer this question until somebody marks it.

      Mark it on the plan

      Currently assuming: nobody is overlooking this. Tested across one confirmed observer changes the whole privacy answer.

    What the place is doing at 6:35pm in September

    Coastal Mediterranean, dry summers, salt air (scenario shape).

    What it feels like

    comfortable

    70.5°F

    Felt temperature · 43 on the reporting scale

    It feels about 2 degrees cooler than the air, near 70°F.

    What is doing it

    • Air movement

      −9.1°

    • Direct sun on the seat

      +1.8°
    How this was worked out
  • Air
    72.4°F from Coastal Mediterranean, dry summers, salt air (scenario shape), scenario (from a published source)
  • Radiant
    79.5°F mean radiant temperature
  • Method
    Six-directional radiation integration, then ASHRAE operative temperature (from a published source)

    • Direct sun

    in sun

    17.3 W/m²

    Beam reaching this point · 100 on the reporting scale

    Direct sun is on this spot right now.

    How this was worked out
  • Sun
    8deg up, bearing 268deg
  • Traced
    100% of the beam reaches this point

    • Glare

    difficult

    56

    out of 100

    The sun sits about 14 degrees from where a person at this seat is looking, at 8 degrees above the horizon. That is straight in the eyes.

    How this was worked out
  • Facing
    260deg
  • Sun off the line of sight
    14deg

    • Privacy exposure

    Unanswered

    No observer has been placed yet. Privacy is a question about who can see in from where, and until one is marked there is nothing to answer.

    Wind

    gusty

    11.6 mph

    Wind at the seat · 57 on the reporting scale

    Nothing upwind is doing much; this spot gets close to the open wind speed.

    How this was worked out
  • Reference
    10.2 mph at 10 m from Coastal Mediterranean, dry summers, salt air (scenario shape), scenario (from a published source)
  • At seat height
    11.6 mph before shelter
  • Shelter
    0% removed by what stands upwind

    • View

    open

    100

    out of 100

    The view from this seat is essentially intact.

    What is doing it

    • The bay

      +100
    How this was worked out
  • Corridors
    The bay
  • Method
    Rays sampled across each corridor's angular window

    • Surface heat

    comfortable

    73.9°F

    Surface temperature · 17 on the reporting scale

    The surface is running about 74°F.

    How this was worked out
  • Surface
    Terrace pavers
  • Method
    Absorbed shortwave against air temperature, flattened by air movement (from a published source)

    • Wetness

    normal

    1.9 x

    Drying time against the open · 43 on the reporting scale

    Sun and air movement here are enough to dry the surface at an ordinary rate.

    How this was worked out
  • Drying rate
    0.000 in/hour here
  • Method
    Penman combination equation on the radiation and air actually reaching this spot (from a published source)

    • Light after dark

    daylight

    0

    out of 100

    Artificial light is not doing anything at this hour.

    How this was worked out
  • Sun
    still up

    • Ask something else about this place

    Who can see me?

    The sightline, the smallest screen that closes it, and what it costs you in view.

    What grows here?

    Usable light across a day, not the label on the tag.

    I already own this. Where should it go?

    The same reasoning backwards: every spot you have marked, ranked for one plant.

    What survives here?

    What this exposure does to the things you leave out.

    Dinner outside tonight?

    The forecast, read against this specific seat.

    What changes through the year?

    The same layout in May, August and October.

    What changes after dark?

    Light, glare and who can see in once the sun has gone.

    Everything on the plan, in text
    ThingReadingNote
    Parapet3.6 ft100 per cent solid.
    West parapet3.6 ft100 per cent solid.
    Stair head8.5 ft100 per cent solid.