Brise soleil
Brise soleil, sometimes brise-soleil (French pronunciation: [bʁiːz sɔlɛj], plural, "brise-soleil" (invariable), from French, "sun breaker"), is an architectural feature of a building that reduces heat gain within that building by deflecting sunlight.[1] Brise-soleils can comprise a variety of permanent sun-shading structures, ranging from the simple patterned concrete walls popularized by Le Corbusier in the Palace of Assembly to the elaborate wing-like mechanism devised by Santiago Calatrava for the Milwaukee Art Museum or the mechanical, pattern-creating devices of the Institut du Monde Arabe by Jean Nouvel.
In the typical form, a horizontal projection extends from the sunside facade of a building. This is most commonly used to prevent facades with a large amount of glass from overheating during the summer. Often louvers are incorporated into the shade to prevent the high-angle summer sun falling on the facade, but also to allow the low-angle winter sun to provide some passive solar heating.[2]
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I. The movable Burke brise soleil on the Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum closes at sunset
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time lapse of Milwaukee Art Museum's moving brise soleil from multiple angles
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The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at night
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Unité d'Habitation in Berlin
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Islamic patterning on Burj Qatar, Doha, designed by Jean Nouvel
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New York Times Building 0210.JPG
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- Brise soleil at the Milwaukee Art Museum
- British-Yemini Society Influence of climate on window design
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