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Office meeting area behind floor-to-ceiling venetian blinds

Office building, fully glazed

Floor-to-ceiling venetian blinds across the whole façade of an office building. Inside, the view stays; outside, the heat stays.

Keep the light, not the heat

Floor-to-ceiling glazing brings in heat nobody ordered for the summer. Slats solve that differently from a curtain: they tilt. Set correctly, they take the direct sun out of the room and keep the daylight. Artificial light at midday is the sign that the shading is set too coarsely.

Aluminium venetian blinds on the glass façade, seen from the side — The curtain at half height, seen from the side.

Aluminium slats seen from below, closely stacked — The stacked pack from below — and the edge of a single slat against the light.

Close-up of a single slat edge against the light — The stacked pack from below — and the edge of a single slat against the light.

Why on the outside

External shading catches the heat before it comes through the glass. Internal shading lets it in and then holds it there. That is the whole reason an office façade is fitted on the outside, even though it is the more demanding way.

Metal venetian blinds on a commercial façade — Metal slats on the commercial façade.

Venetian blinds beside the entrance, striped shadows on the forecourt — At the entrance the curtain lays its stripes across the forecourt.

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