#vertical fins

LOUVER FACADE - FTE OFFICE BUILDING by Plan Architect, Thailand

https://www.archdaily.com/958787/fte-office-building-plan-architect?ad_medium=gallery

AHR ARCHITECTS: TALBOT LODGE, BLACKPOOL / UK

http://www.archdaily.com/577205/blackpool-talbot-ahr-architects

double skin facade, fritted glass, vertical fins

Vertical fins span the building elevations forming a wave like appearance which also echo the wave shapes formed in the sandy beach when the tide is out. Options were explored through testing various designs against the reduction in solar glare with the combined visual and shading effect of this design.

SNOHETTA - Hunt Library, Raleigh - VERTICAL FINS + BUILDING SYSTEMS

image 1: facade with solar shading (vertical fins)

image 2+3:  facade (fins) mock-up

image 4:  building envelope elements

image 5:  curtainwall facade under construction - note the brackets for the vertical fins extending from the seams in the curtainwall glazing

image 6+7: building envelope elements 

image 8-10: energy modeling

http://ncappa.org/wp-content/gallery/2011presentations/Hunt%20Library%20PDF%202-15-11.pdf

SOM - CHINATOWN BRANCH LIBRARY

top: environmental strategies - diagram

http://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/chicago-public-library-chinatown-branch_o?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=Project-Edit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=APG_041516A%20(1)&he=2d51f5f46114ce43596ae92d04f7a52bfe6092f5

double-glazed, floor-to-ceiling glass curtainwalls; architects studied how the sun tracks across the facade and devised a series of VERTICAL FINS to act as a sunshade. The fins should yield a 30 percent solar reduction on the exterior. The fins stretch down toward the lower level, providing shading for the lower-level spaces as well as for seating just outside the structure.  

http://www.asce.org/magazine/20140624-modern-library-reshaped-for-site/

AHR ARCHITECTS: TALBOT LODGE, BLACKPOOL / UK

http://www.archdaily.com/577205/blackpool-talbot-ahr-architects

double skin facade, fritted glass, vertical fins

Vertical fins span the building elevations forming a wave like appearance which also echo the wave shapes formed in the sandy beach when the tide is out. Options were explored through testing various designs against the reduction in solar glare with the combined visual and shading effect of this design.