All well-known blinds are used today not only as an option of the interior light-protective window design. From long rails - lamellas - often recruit steel, interroom and furniture doors. However, in our case, a completely unusual facade system was laid in the project of the house. It is close to the outside walls, places at some distance from them are arranged peculiar "monumental" blinds consisting of racks and attached massive regions. Such an original trim is made on one facade of the building.
The architect used the architect used the system of the lamellae not only to protect the room from the direct rays of the Sun, but also to limit the light flux, penetrating the building outside.
Function and decoration
The facades of the building are partially glazed. These are huge French windows from the floor to the ceiling. The cottage is worth not far from the road, and if it were not for the cutting design on top of the outer walls, all the interiors would be clearly viewed from the street. Especially defenselessly the house would look in the evening, reminding the glowing aquarium. The simplest output from the position is the usual blinds that are installed on the windows from the inside of the room. However, such a solution seemed to the architect very trivial. This will be devoted to the architecture of the building, would make it similar to millions of others (including office) modern buildings. The same house is located on a sufficiently open and windy plot. Erequent and winter season for glazed walls will not be superfluous construction, capable of weakening wind blows and, like a breakwater, take over the first force of rain and blizzards. In addition, the "blinds" muffled the roar of the car along the road, playing the role of a kind of noise protection facility. The amount of daylight penetrating the premises through the lattice trim is quite sufficient and meets the established insolation standards.Wishing to give the appearance of the cottage is integrity and harmony, the architect spread the barrier from the lamellae not only on glass, but also on all the deaf surfaces of the two facades. For the installation of rail lamellas, a wooden frame is provided from vertically located (USAG 1.5M) for a rectangular section of 155cm. The grille closes the facade converging at the right angle, rising into two floors. The beams were set at a distance of 1.1 m from the walls, each for a separate foundation, and tied with a concrete facade with wooden traction from the same bar, applying steel adapters and anchor screws. The wooden frame, pressed to the wall plane, strengthened the same anchors.
For long life
For the creation of the design, pine rails of trapezoidal shape were used (the side of 4cm is addressed to the house, to the street - 2 cm) 30mm thick. Of course, rectangular rails will come, but the "trapezium" has its advantages. So, for example, to consider from the street that happening in the house is quite difficult, but from the premises can be freely admired by the surroundings. In addition, rainwater flows faster from such railings and snow is not delayed. The step of their location is selected experimentally.
All Wooden design: Racks, frame and rails - pre-treated with a special antiseptic composition of Baltic Color (Estonia), protecting wood from aggressive exposure to the external environment, then painted the dark blue paint the same company. Several layers of varnish have formed a coating, resistant to ultraviolet rays and atmospheric precipitation and additionally a protective tree from aging. It will be necessary to periodically update it to periodically - apply one or two layers of the same undiluted varnish.
What options are possible?
The railings are enshrined in the crate horizontally, but in some cases, if the architectural forms and stylistics of the facade are allowed, the lamellas are mounted and in a vertical position. True, for this, in addition to the main carriers, it will take an intermediate horizontal blockage to which the rails will be born. With this version of the device of the facade "blinds", the effect of the Shore arises: through them you can only look forward, and during an angle on the side or diagonally - the look immediately rests on the dense wooden frequency. However, there are enough light in the premises.
A special case - rails fixed so that it is possible to turn them around the longitudinal axis. This design, equipped with adapters and traction, can have a manual drive and makes it easy to change the angle of rotation of the rails to adjust the illumination of the interiors. At the same time, if you put the lamellae parallel to the facade, the windows will be closed with a solid wooden wall.