The idea of roof vents existed for hundreds of years with natural vents employed in chinese buildings during the tang dynasty natural ventilation ducts in the buddhist monks caves and wind catchers incorporated in arabian architecture.
Triangulated large flowing glass roof.
Here we consider the most important considerations when choosing the best glass type for your rooflight project.
Across the widest range of applications a specification of skyspan glass roofs overhead glazing will ensure structural and architectural enhancement with a unique combination of natural light and weather protection integrity.
This blue green glass opens the museum to the bay and sky while forming an atrium roof that draws in daylight.
The scope of skyspan glass roofs overhead glazing is limited only by a designer s imagination.
The frames are available in a selection of powder coated colours.
Our glass roofs use ultra slim aluminium framing the slimmest available on the market to create large glass roofs with minimal framing.
We have fabricated them for pool enclosures kitchens sitting rooms libraries stairwells and anywhere that natural light may enhance the aesthetic of your home or business.
This unfinished concrete block is disrupted by the flowing organic triangulated glass enigma also the name of a 1929 dalĂ painting composed of 1 062 glass triangles.
Available in a range of pitches these glass roofs can be used to create light filled extensions as well as modern conservatories for any home.
Glazing height above floor level.
Glass roof systems and roof lanterns provide the appeal of a traditional conservatory.
In the roof illustrated triangular glazed units form a facetted surface following the supporting steelwork.
Designs fabricates and installs glass roof systems.
In this arrangement of roof glazing the roof is face sealed and has no secondary path for water in the event of failure of a silicone joint and no means of dealing with condensation as can be seen from an internal view of the roof below.
Vent roofs with steeples towers or cupolas can be found in different buildings from barns to cathedrals.