Bioclimatic Façades - responds to the extremes of external environmental conditions by controlling heat loss and gain, managing daylight and enhancing the quality of the indoor environment.
Daylight Management
Maximise use of natural daylight to ensure greater visual comfort, reduce the need for artificial lighting, lowering energy consumption and operating costs.
Heating and cooling strategies
Dynamic Insulation™ provides better control of thermal exchanges, enhancing energy efficiency and maintaining thermal comfort.
Natural Ventilation
Naturally ventilated buildings with automated windows and night cooling, significantly reduce the need for additional cooling and improve air quality. Creating a healthier, more productive working environment.
Somfy provide blind and shading control solutions for single zone or multi zone applications.
Facade management systems
Somfy offers a range of solutions for the centralised management of solar shading and window opening devices within a commercial building environment.
Local controls
Somfy offers a comprehensive range of control devices that enable building occupants to manage shades and other facade applications from their local working or living environment.
Motorisation
Somfy offers a comprehensive range of motors for a variety of solar shading and facade applications. Click on the relevant application below to find a suitable solution.
Somfy provide Home Automation solutions for single zone or multi zone applications.
Home Automation
Local controls
Somfy offers a wide range of controls and automatic devices.
Motorisation
Somfy offers a range of solutions for automated solar shading and security applications in and around the home.
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The facade - a living membrane
The facade is where the outdoors and indoors come together, where natural and man-made environments meet. Externally, climate patterns continuously vary according to changes in season, weather and day or night. Internally, conditions change according to building use, day-to-day activities and occupancy.
Key objective for bioclimatic facades
Building occupants and sustainability are the centrepiece of bioclimatic design*.
The objective is to reduce the energy consumption rate required to operate a building by utilising natural elements such as solar gain and natural light and ventilation.
* Source : Traité d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme bioclimatique, Alain Liébard & André de Herde, Editions Observer.
Architectural solutionsTo satisfy both of these objectives (comfort vs. energy savings), several parameters must be established.
- Day-to-day activities and habits of building occupants.
- The different functions and uses of the building: office, school, housing...
- Climate and microclimate parameters: ratio of sunlight according to season, building orientation, surrounding buildings, shadows cast by neighbouring buildings, vegetation...
The delivery of effective Bioclimatic design relies on the use of emerging facade technologies:
Automated solar shading devices and window opening systems are a proven solution.