Engineering:Brise soleil

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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]

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]

  • Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK: Half of the facade has exterior blinds
    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]
    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.
    The movable Burke brise soleil on the Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum closes at sunset.
  • Gustavo Capanema Palace in Rio de Janeiro
    Gustavo Capanema Palace in Rio de Janeiro
  • Detail of north facade of Gustavo Capanema Palace
    Detail of north facade of Gustavo Capanema Palace
  • The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
  • The New York Times Building by Renzo Piano
    The New York Times Building by Renzo Piano
  • Curutchet House by Le Corbusier, inside view
    Curutchet House by Le Corbusier, inside view

See also

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



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