Additionally, the south and west walls of the building deflect direct summer sun with a travertine fin-wall and brise soleil shades that don t obstruct views.
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In 2003, the company launched the CW 86 cassette fa�ade system , the CR 120 conservatory system and the " Brise Soleil " shading systems.
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From Santiago Calatrava's spread-winged brise soleil at the Milwaukee Art Museum to Sobek's own snap-together house, engineers are no longer playing second fiddle.
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"It was kind of an embarrassment, " said Donald Baumgartner, president of the museum's board, noting that three consecutive gusts of wind shut the brise soleil down.
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The Engineering and Architecture Building, now called Roque Rua�o Building was built in 1952, designed by Julio Victor Rocha, initiated the application of the Niemeyer-inspired brise soleil in local buildings.
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Plans have been made by architects from the local American Institute of Architects ( AIA ) chapter and historians to salvage and repurpose the 120-piece concrete brise soleil latticework that surrounds the building.
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Window sections should be adequately sized, and to avoid over-illumination can be shielded with a Brise soleil, awnings, well placed trees, glass coatings, and other passive and active devices.
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When completion of the $ 100 million Milwaukee Art Museum expansion was delayed nearly six months in 2001, the press twittered about the soaring brise soleil's complexity and its potentially ungainly flap in high winds.
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The museum's addition, which opened in May, is topped by a sunshade, or brise soleil, which forms a fanlike structure that opens and closes to control the temperature and light in the museum.
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Unlike the Barcelona building, Burj Qatar's fa�ade was designed for local conditions : the brise soleil was " constructed of multi-layered patterns invoking ancient Islamic screens designed to shade buildings from the sun ."
