Brise soleil
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Brise soleil, sometimes brise-soleil (breez-soh-ley, from French, "sun break") in architecture refers to a variety of permanent sun-shading techniques, ranging from the simple patterned concrete walls popularized by Le Corbusier 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.
[edit] See also
- Awning
- Green building
- Mashrabiya
- Qamariyah
- Sudare
[edit] External links
- Brise soleil at the Milwaukee Art Museum
- British-Yemini Society Influence of climate on window design
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