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
Home automation by Somfy
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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Motorisation
Purpose of motorised shading devices
They allow users to manage natural light, increase the insulation potential of windows and control the air circulation between different rooms; thus contributing to the process of bioclimatic facades.
Motorizing and automating blinds also ensure:
Motorizing and automating blinds also ensure:
- increasing the life of end-products,
- preventing discoloration of materials inside the building,
- gaining privacy or complete darkness a room,
- securing openings
- decorating (interior shading devices),
- contributing to the esthetics of the facade (exterior shading devices)
The level of performance is related to various factors:
- position in reference to the facade indoor or outdoor ?
- width of the air space between the glazing and the shading device
- alignment: vertical or horizontal ?
- materials, thickness, color…
Bioclimatic façades and motorized end-products:
The chart below show an indication of the performance level between different motorized end-products with respect to the 3 main objectives of bioclimatic facades.
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Daylight management Natural Ventilation
Dynamic Insulation- winter comfort Dynamic insulation - summer comfort
Note that only the combination of automation and motorization can guarantee a significant level of performance.