Brise soleil

Short description: Architectural sunshade

A basic brise soleil at the Charles Wells Brewery for Wells & Co in Bedford, England. This photo was taken of the south facing elevation at noon in December, a little before the winter solstice. Note how all the windows are in the shade.

Brise soleil, sometimes brise-soleil (fr; lit. sun breaker), is an architectural feature of a building that reduces its heat gain by deflecting incoming sunlight.[1] The system allows low-level sunlight to enter a building in the mornings, evenings and during winter but cuts out direct light during summer.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Types
* 2 Gallery
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Types

Brise-soleil can comprise a variety of permanent sun-shading structures, ranging from the simple patterned concrete walls popularized by Le Corbusier in the Palace of Assembly[3] to the elaborate wing-like mechanism devised by Santiago Calatrava for the Milwaukee Art Museum[4] or the mechanical, pattern-creating devices of the Institut du Monde Arabe by Jean Nouvel.[5]

In the typical form, a horizontal projection extends from the sunside facade of a building. This is most commonly used to prevent facades with a large amount of glass from overheating during the summer. Often louvers are incorporated into the shade to prevent the high-angle summer sun falling on the facade, but also to allow the low-angle winter sun to provide some passive solar heating.[6]

## Gallery

* Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK: Half of the facade has exterior blinds

* City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia: brise soleil at the L'Hemisfèric[7][clarification needed]

* The movable Burke brise soleil on the Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum closes at sunset.

* Gustavo Capanema Palace in Rio de Janeiro

* Detail of north facade of Gustavo Capanema Palace

* The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

* The New York Times Building by Renzo Piano

* Curutchet House by Le Corbusier, inside view

## See also

* Awning
* Green building
* List of low-energy building techniques
* Mashrabiya
* Pergola
* Sudare

## References

1. ↑ Borden; Meredith, Michael, eds (2012). Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production. Routledge. p. 330.
2. ↑ "Brise Soleil". Two Point Seven Facades 1 (1). 2019. https://twopointseven.co.uk/blog/f/brise-soleil. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
3. ↑ "AD Classics: Palace of the Assembly / Le Corbusier" (in en-US). 2011-08-10. https://www.archdaily.com/155922/ad-classics-ad-classics-palace-of-the-assembly-le-corbusier.
4. ↑ Museum, Milwaukee Art. "Burke Brise Soleil | Milwaukee Art Museum". https://mam.org/visit/burke-brise-soleil/.
5. ↑ "AD Classics: Institut du Monde Arabe / Enrique Jan + Jean Nouvel + Architecture-Studio" (in en-US). 2011-10-02. https://www.archdaily.com/162101/ad-classics-institut-du-monde-arabe-jean-nouvel.
6. ↑ Tolson, Simon (2014). Dictionary of Construction Terms. CRC Press. pp. 40. ISBN 9781317912354. https://books.google.com/books?id=JPVfAwAAQBAJ&q=brise+soleil&pg=PA40.
7. ↑ L " Hemisfèric – Brise Soleil  | Download Scientific Diagram

## External links

* Brise soleil at the Milwaukee Art Museum
* [1] (Brise Soleil Commercial Applications)
* British-Yemini Society Influence of climate on window design
* [2] (demonstration of Brise Soleil in commercial applications)
* AD Classics: AD Classics: Palace of the Assembly / Le Corbusier
* Technical possibilities (in German)
* Museum of everyday culture (in German)
* [3] (Further reading on Brise Soleil from a supplier)

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