The cheapest air conditioning you will ever install.
Sunlight stopped outside the glass costs nothing to remove. Sunlight let in and then chilled costs you every hour of every summer for the life of the building. Shading is not decoration — it is the cooling bill, decided in advance.
Every facade gets the shade its orientation needs.
South wants a horizontal overhang. West wants vertical fins or it wants nothing at all. Wrapping the same screen around all four faces is a decision nobody made on purpose.
Sun Path Study
Shadow modelled hour by hour across summer and winter, so the depth of every fin and overhang is a calculated number.
Fixed Shading
Overhangs, fins, screens and mashrabiya sized to block the summer sun and still let the low winter sun in.
Adjustable Systems
Louvres, pergolas and external blinds where a fixed device cannot cover both seasons — specified with a maintenance route to reach them.
Glare & Daylight
Enough daylight to switch the lights off, without the glare that makes people close the blinds and switch them back on.
Shade you can justify with numbers.
Every device sized from the sun study, and priced against what it saves.
Shadow Study
Hourly shadow images for the key dates, per facade.
Shading Details
Fin, louvre and screen sections with fixings and thermal breaks.
Heat Gain Summary
Solar gain before and after — the figure your MEP engineer will ask for.
Which way does your glass face?
Tell us the orientation and the window sizes, and we will tell you what shading is worth adding — and what is not.
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