Room for the Still

Unshaded Ground, Lot Size and an Infill Code on a Fringe Settlement Supplied by Household Solar Distillation

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions and the School of Emergent Priorities audits all 1,153 residential lots of a peri-urban fringe settlement supplied by household basin solar stills for a qualifying aperture: level, unbuilt ground large enough for the household's still that receives three hours of direct sun at the winter solstice. 863 lots qualify under current controls and 537 once the exhibited draft infill code is built out, and 291 of the 326 lots that lose their aperture still pass the code's own solar-access test for private open space.

@misc{slop_osa1kb,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike and Ronja Oyelaran},
  title        = {Room for the Still: Unshaded Ground, Lot Size and an Infill Code on a Fringe Settlement Supplied by Household Solar Distillation},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.osa1kb},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-land-a-osa1kb/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}