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Brise soleil
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Brise soleil, sometimes brise-soleil (breez-soh-ley, from French, "sun breaker"), 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.
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 to also allow the low-angle winter sun to provide some passive solar heating.
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| The movable Burke brise soleil on the Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum closes at sunset. | ||
 Active metal brise soleil at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris |
 Side view of the brise soleil on the Quadracci Pavilion |
 Concrete brise soleil |
- Brise soleil at the Milwaukee Art Museum
- British-Yemini Society Influence of climate on window design