Glass louvres that couple style with practicality

Anyone who has worked in an ill-ventilated building in hot weather or in the midst of radiators running on overdrive will know how agonising such an experience of heat can be. Headaches become a recurring theme, backs and foreheads drip with sweat and levels of productivity run at all-time lows. Working in cold buildings can be equally bothersome of course: fingers can be heard cracking at their keyboards and many cups of tea or coffee must be provided simply to keep the office workers functioning. The latter chilly conditions are often not even the fault of bad insulation or an inefficient heating system; quite conversely, the chill factor in the workplace often results from expensive air-conditioning systems going into overdrive and leaving employees feeling thirsty and irritable. Fortunately, both overheating and underheating can be prevented quite easily with the latest innovations in brise soleil, glass louvres and external louvres.

Indeed, the remedies to the above issues are not so difficult to find. Among glass louvres, external louvres and brise soleil, the latter are preventative innovations, for example, that conquer the cause of overheating at its source: using a special cut of glass that has all the markings of an object of high design, the brise soleil is effectively an advanced incarnation of the parasol or awning that helps prevent glare by stopping direct sunshine from entering a given building. An extra bonus that accompanies the brise is its capacity to make a building more private, thus evoking an air of intrigue around an enterprise at the same time as encouraging employees to concentrate.

glass louvres and external louvres are possibly even more deserving of praise than the brise soleil, however, for they comply with and even surpass the kind of environmental policies put forward by green parties internationally. Altogether then, the above developments in building improvement technology will allow company bosses to conduct their businesses more responsibly. Directors who opt for heat-controlling investments will be recognised as those who make their employees, as well as the consciences of their clients, an absolute priority. Finally, the fact remains that buying into these structural additions will actually modernize the aspect of any given office block or shop; we have only to think of the Eden project in Cornwall or Paris’s Louvre itself to realise that a business buying into shading and heating devices will be following in the footsteps of architectural success.

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Brise soleil and other features further sustainability

There are various architectural features that can be installed to make the best use of natural light, and, indeed, to provide the best protection from the sun’s heat and light. They can also contribute to the sustainability of a structure by optimising the flow of light and heat. Glass louvres, external louvres and brise soleil are all features that provide benefits on different buildings and in different conditions. Bespoke solutions are the only way to get the best out of the available light and heat.

A brise soleil is an architectural feature, usually attached over the side of a building and designed to provide a particular level of sun-shading and stop the face of the building from overheating in the hottest months of the year. The feature can also provide other benefits, such as an increased level of privacy for the building’s face, or reduced glare from early morning/late evening sunshine. In their concrete incarnation they were popularised by pioneer of modern architecture Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, otherwise known as Le Corbusier. However, they have taken countless forms over the years, including the huge, movable wings of the Milwaukee Art Museum, designed by Santiago Calatrava. When they are full extended, the iconic Milwaukee wings stand at 217 feet over the structure. In an original and subtle form, they are present in Jean Nouvel’s 1980 edifice, the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute) in Paris. These take the form of apertures in the glass wall panels, which open and close at each hour of the day.

On non-structural walls, glass louvres can be a way of providing light-shading by using lightweight materials at relatively low construction costs. External louvres can be used cleverly to resolve two issues at once: avoiding overheating during the hot summer months, when the sun beams down from a high angle, and harnessing the light of the winter sun.

So, depending on the building – the conditions that surround it, and the angles and temperatures of the sun on its faces – any of these features could be a viable solution. Glass louvres are a great solution to achieve internal day-lighting in a building, and are very cost-effective. The brise soleil is versatile, and can be extremely aesthetically pleasing and, if deployed intelligently, can make the structure look really state of the art. External louvres can be deployed in a multitude of different ways, and so they offer quite a scope for creative solutions.

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