Bespoke Glass Rooflights, Skylights and Atriums provide an excellent method of introducing natural light into any room that permits. Glass rooflights tend to be less obtrusive than windows and facades and offer greater flexibility when designing a room’s general aesthetics. The terms glass rooflight and glass skylight are normally used to describe the same product (a relatively small glass atrium roof). The term glass atrium is normally used to describe a much larger glass roof application. Our bespoke glass rooflight, glass skylight and glass atrium designs are developed to meet and individual contract’s aesthetical and technical requirement.
You will find individual product headings and considerations for the most typically requested glass rooflight/atrium products below. In addition to being able to access our budget quote generators and product download sections accordingly (trade account login permitting). Typically requested bespoke glass rooflight, skylight and atrium designs include:-
Mono Pitched Rooflights, Skylights and Atriums
Walk On Glass Rooflights, Skylights and Atriums
Dual Pitched Rooflights, Skylights and Atriums
Barrel Vaulted Rooflights, Skylights and Atriums
Pyramid Rooflights, Skylights and Atriums
Conical / Faceting Rooflights, Skylights and Atriums
Domed Rooflights, Skylights and Atriums
Lantern Rooflights, Skylights and Atriums
Should your glass rooflight/atrium application be of a complete bespoke nature (outside of the standard rooflight geometries above), please do not hesitate to contact our offices with your requirements accordingly.
Whilst rooflights, skylights and glass atriums tend not to be considered by way of the view they provide. Glass roof details do provide an enhanced view of the sky (both during the day and at night), which varies under different weather conditions. It is for these reasons that glass rooflights, skylights and atriums are often utilised within therapeutic spaces (such as bedrooms, bathrooms and general living/working spaces). By specifying our bespoke glass rooflight, skylight and atrium products, our team will ensure that such characteristics are not overlooked.
The design geometry, system details and glass specification can have an enormous impact on the environment below a glass roofing product. A glass rooflights design geometry and system details will effect the aesthetics of the space below in addition to the providing other characteristics such as single focal points, designed light management and spatial awareness. The glass specification is just as critical. A well designed and coordinated rooflight/atrium glass specification will result in aiding the environment below. Considerations typically include heat transmittance (the glass and systems U-Value), light transmittance (including UV light mitigation where required) and sound reduction (higher levels of sound insulation being achieved from laminated glass skylights).
On a similar note, care must be provided when appointing an architectural glazing supplier to undertake bespoke glass rooflight, skylight and atrium designs. Many of the problems experienced with today’s architectural market are due to contractors not fully understanding the products/systems that they are providing. Leaks/water ingress is regularly witnessed as a result of a lack of water management design experience and uninhabitable/uncomfortable environments experienced as a result of not coordinating the glass specification correctly. Imagine the difference correct design coordination would make to your application.
The most common glass rooflight geometry is that of a mono pitched or ‘flat’ glass rooflight design. Consisting of flat glass units, which are typically rectangular. Mono pitched glass skylights provide an excellent cost effective solution for most applications. Due to the required design fall on flat glass rooflights, skylights and atriums a true symmetry about a mono pitched rooflights length can not be obtained. This is more obviously apparent where such glass rooflights are completed with internal finishes to the ends or by observing the reflections within the glass. In such applications where a true symmetrical finish is desired (often found on long narrow hall ways and applications where a rooflight is positioned centrally about a room). A dual pitched glass rooflight or barrel vaulted glass rooflight design may be considered. Dual pitched glass skylights and barrel vaulted glass skylight products produce a ridge/apex line of symmetry with many barrel vaulted glass applications providing uninterrupted views. Likewise, glass pyramid rooflights, glass conical / facetting rooflights and glass dome rooflights provide multiple lines of symmetry and are often utilsed as a central focal point over the designed area.
Due to the nature and cost of glass as a material, it is important that every effort is made to ensure that an architectural glass rooflight, skylight and atrium design is right. Now would therefore be an excellent time to contact our sales team, who are looking forward to casting some light over your requirements.
