Blind Love – Feburary 2014

Welcome to Issue 1 of the 2014 series of Blind Love. Vertilux’s newsletter endeavours to keep you informed on the ever-changing and innovative window landscape, and how we go about covering it.

This month we profile Vertilux’s role in the fit-out of the Ground Floor Restaurant at award winning Brisbane building, One One One Eagle Street; look in on some customised project solutions; and unveil another recent doughnut-inspired Chinese landmark building in the Wide World of Windows.

Please keep reading to see what we reveal this month when we lift up the blinds…
Your innovative Vertilux team

Project Profile – One One One Eagle Street, Brisbane – Restaurant

The fit-out of roller blinds in the restaurant of the award winning One One One Eagle Street building posed some interesting challenges for Vertilux.As the blinds had to be just over halfway down the 15.75m high mullions, a customised and engineered steel bracket system was developed to allow for the (up to) 50mm movement that can occur at this point in the glazing. These brackets, which incorporate a custom designed and built headbox, along with the stainless steel chains were all either custom anodised or powdercoated to meet the high level of design detail required. Colour matching to the mullion colour was imperative so that the blinds appear as a fully integrated unit in the fit-out of this innovative building.A manual roller blind system was the only option as access to power was not possible through the steel mullions; the Vertilux Airlift Manual System fitted the need perfectly.Fabric colour was also required to be different to the normal offer. The base building requirement was for a black blind to the exterior however, to add the right ambience for this restaurant, a softer internal colour option was needed. The fully customised Trevira CS fabric was thus two sided, with Black on one side and Bronze on the other.Click here to see more images

Innovation at work – Vertilux working with you!

Vertilux is well known as the leader in the blind market with their Trevira CS fabrics and blind systems. But what you might not know is the way we work with our clients to bring solutions to problematic site issues. We bring you three recently achieved solutions.

SITE ISSUE 1

PROBLEM:
Large 6m drop roller blinds had to be fitted just over halfway down the 15.75m high mullions. The blinds were required to fit across the glazing join and between the mullions, be fully enclosed so as not to see the hardware, and additionally Vertilux needed to allow for up to 50mm side-to-side movement, that can occur at this point in the glazing.
SOLUTION:
A customised and engineered steel bracket system was developed to allow for the up to 50mm side-to-side movement at this point on the glazing. Only two prototype systems (which incorporated the fully enclosed headbox and the sliding fixed bracket) were required to be built before a solution was achieved. The solution allowed for a sliding fixed bracket system to hold the blind whilst allowing the outer box to move. This was created and installed with full engineering approval.

Engineered sliding bracket system

Before: After:

SITE ISSUE 2

PROBLEM:
When installing a Manual Double Blind Roller System where both chains need to be on the same end, how do you neatly and efficiently install two Chain Tensioners onto the mullion or sill?
SOLUTION:
Vertilux developed a bracket to hold two of their chain tensioners at the wall/mullion or sill allowing for the seamless operation of both roller blinds from the same side. The bracket allows minimal entrance into the room space as they match the roller blinds above. The bracket comes powdercoated to match the Vertilux Chain Tensioner in Black or White.

Solution!

SITE ISSUE 3

PROBLEM:
Interstitial (between glazing) Aluminium Venetian Blinds used for the Mental Health ward of a major hospital needed to meet a specific design for Anti-ligature control knobs, over and above the current standard.
SOLUTION:
With the brief supplied and as shown here in the drawn detail, Vertilux sourced an existing profile and modified it to meet the control knob requirement. This modification was used with our standard Interstitial Venetian Blind System 2.7.

We invite you to talk to us early in the design process so that together we can develop solutions in the most timely, cost effective and painless way!

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The control knob would be fitted with
the standard ribbed control knob.

Design brief that needed to be met.

Wide world of windows – Doughnut shaped skyscraper completed in Guangzhou

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A skyscraper shaped like a giant doughnut has been completed in Guangzhou, China. Located on the edge of the Pearl River, the 138-metre Guangzhou Circle was designed by Joseph Di Pasquale of Milan studio AM Project.A circle with a 50-metre diameter punctures the heart of the 33-storey structure, turning the building into a hollow circle. When reflected in the river, this shape becomes a figure of eight – a lucky number in Chinese culture.

Click here to read the Dezeen article and see more amazing images

Image credit: Dezeen