Curtains and Drapes Filters; Prouvé, Mimram & Souto de Moura The glass, as a simple gap enclosure, can not guarantee complete protection against the sun, light or privacy. The contemporary glasses protective efficacy has been increased regarding solar radiation, but always at a very high cost, and sacrificing light capture. But above all, glasses are not yet, adjustable. It is desirable to have filters protecting from the sun in summer, but also as a heat source in winter. Comfort is a matter of adapting to each situation and subtle nuances in its gradation. Contouring the visuals, getting total darkness or dimming light, redirecting light to areas of the room where do not dazzles but allows a sufficient lighting. All of them are options that only operable protections allow.
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Curtains and Drapes Filters; Prouvé, Mimram & Souto de Moura
The glass, as a simple gap enclosure, can not guarantee complete protection against the
sun, light or privacy. The contemporary glasses protective efficacy has been increased
regarding solar radiation, but always at a very high cost, and sacrificing light capture. But
above all, glasses are not yet, adjustable. It is desirable to have filters protecting from the
sun in summer, but also as a heat source in winter. Comfort is a matter of adapting to each
situation and subtle nuances in its gradation. Contouring the visuals, getting total darkness
or dimming light, redirecting light to areas of the room where do not dazzles but allows a
sufficient lighting. All of them are options that only operable protections allow.
Mobile protections are the appropriate mechanism to provide richness to our architecture,
allowing to generate a wide variety of atmospheres while dynamizing the facades. There are
many possibilities of operability, but there is a feature that reduces them to two groups: the
direction in which they move when collecting. Blinds, or other external protections can
move vertically or horizontally, as curtains or drapes.
In the construction of the “Eixample” of Barcelona roll-up blinds were used on the facades
overlooking the interior courtyard while the noble façade, facing the street, was solved with
folding-sliding louvered shutters, which are kept, when open, on the jamb of the windows.
Proper control of radiation and views suggests the vertical displacement, while the dignity
required by the main façade shunned the picturesqueness of roll-up blinds. Opening, by
folding on the jambs, these shutters should not mislead about the possibilities of the
outside and inside views control. Most of these devices also leave mobility of the louvers
independently as horizontal stripes, allowing the variation of the conditions of protection of
the internal space according to different heights.
MBM Architects seek the picturesqueness of the traditional roll-up blind in the residential of Santa Agueda in Benicassim 1966-67 incorporating their support in the design of the railings.
In some way, Herzog & de Meuron remember this duplicity in their homes in the rue des Suisses (Paris). Resorting to perforated metal sheet on folding leaves in the outer block while in the small block of the interior patio used wooden roller shutters.