Sun shades can bring really positive benefits to buildings when it comes to their internal functioning as well as their external appeal. Available in a range of options, including brise soleil, glass louvres and external louvres, shading solutions give welcome relief to workers in need of a cool climate, at the same time as they attract customers. If we look to the needs of office employees first, we should point out the clear but often-overlooked fact that environments with comfortable indoor temperatures are far more conducive to promoting and maintaining good work ethics. This is especially true of offices in which stressful operations must be carried out or tight deadlines delivered to. Altogether, an employee who is able to concentrate on the job in hand without getting distracted by his or her worries about melting make-up or visible sweat patches will be much happier and much more productive at work.
Moving onto the aesthetic aspect of the building, we can further understand the possible benefits of fixing external louvres. Perhaps the most outstanding advantage they can bring resides in their visual indication that a creative and inspiring enterprise might exist behind their façade. Custom designed to suit the individual company’s identity and needs, they not only shade buildings but also make it possible for light to enter in myriad patterns and interesting forms. Obviously, such innovative design possibilities could be taken too far and become excessively decorative. But, provided each company gives thought and time to making shade-based decisions, it should be easy to avoid aesthetic suicide.
Altogether, no one should assume that elegant design in shading is only for architecture firms and art museums: innovative working and living environments should be available to everyone. As the late great master of modernity Le Corbusier put it: ‘Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep’. In fact, Le Corbusier would doubtless support the creative potential that brise soleil, external louvres and glass louvres can bring: another maxim of his was that ‘Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light’. Now, almost fifty years on from the passing of this design visionary we have further tasks on our hands concerning the maintenance of old buildings rather than the building of new. In this respect louvres are perfect: they can simply be added to already existing exteriors.
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