Know as choose the right curtains for each technology is essential in achieving a balance between design, aesthetics, light control, solar and thermal. There are now ample options for curtains, blinds y awnings that meet these requirements.
Made in the most diverse materials ( fabric, wood, plastics, leather, bamboo, etc.), the premise is always the same: achieve the right composition between the style of the environment and the effects of transparency and darkening desirable in each case.
Three factors to consider when choosing curtains
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Window analysis: location of the same in relation to the entrance of light, orientation of the opening (if it opens inwards, outwards or is sliding), width, length and elements that surround it (furniture or objects).
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Functionality: How much light we want to filter and if we need to dampen noise (Thermal and acoustic factor of an environment)
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Aesthetics and design: If we want it to have "its own identity" or to assimilate to the environment.
Achieve visual and thermal comfort
These two factors are vitally relevant since they have a direct impact on the level of well-being that will grant us a space, for this reason they are essential at the time of project an environment and we can achieve control over them by choosing the curtains correctly
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Visual comfortl: Solar rays entering a technology or the excess of light reflections they can cause negative sensations in our vision. The filter representing the curtain will determine a clean and homogeneous vision, for this we must adapt the transparency and opacity of the fabric to reduce the brightness and glare to a degree acceptable to the human eye.
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Thermal comfort: Solar radiation is made up of visible and invisible light (infrared and ultraviolet rays). A part of the latter is reflected, but the other is transformed into heat when it hits or passes through materials, such as window glass. The protections placed outside (awnings) or inside (curtains and blinds) reflect and absorb most of the solar radiation, control the luminosity and thus generate the thermal control in rooms.
Una curtain with good thermal insulation it is capable of achieving significant savings in electrical energy consumption. The best sun protection factor is achieved by properly combining the aperture with the color of the material of the curtain (be it fabric or other material).
