The pyramids of Egypt, Chartres Cathedral and Stonehenge are reflections of the proportional harmonies in nature, and take into account solar and lunar alignments. All buildings should be designed with this in mind because it connects us to the cosmos. In this way all buildings can be designed as sacred places – places which help give us an overview and establish our place in the universe.

The Golden Section (1:1.618) for example is an optimum plan proportion for a passive solar building. When elongated on an east-west axis, it has an optimal relationship between south facing wall area and surface-to-volume ratio.

Consider apertures in buildings, through which solar rays may enter at
winter solstice, for example, or a sky light through which one may observe a certain constellation at a given date. Such alignments, taken together with particular applied mathematical proportions, and also special spaces within the building (a tokonoma, for example) combine to make places sacred.