Brise soleil, sometimes brise-soleil, is an architectural feature of a building that reduces its heat gain by deflecting incoming sunlight. The system allows low-level sunlight to enter a building in
A basic brise soleil at the Charles Wells Brewery for Wells & Co in Bedford, England. This photo was taken of the south facing elevation at noon in December, a little before the winter solstice. Note how all the windows are in the shade.
Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK: Half of the facade has exterior blinds
City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia: brise soleil at the L'Hemisfèric[clarification needed]
The movable Burke brise soleil on the Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum closes at sunset.
A pergola is most commonly used as an outdoor garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support crossbeams and a sturdy open lattic
Brise soleil
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Rose Pergola at Kew Gardens, London
Pergola covered in bougainvillea
La fr:Charmille de fr:Pitet à fr:Fallais : The hornbeams of the 180-meter-long (590 ft) Pitet bower from the nineteenth century are included in the fr:Braives classified property list, province of Liège, Belgium (1942)
Typical Australian steel-framed pergola