Aluminium louvre screens and blade systems for solar shading, privacy and a refined, layered facade.
A louvre screen shades without going dark. Instead of a solid barrier, angled aluminium blades block direct sun and hold privacy while air and daylight keep moving through — the difference between a room that's cool and a room that's just dim. The lever here isn't open area, it's blade geometry: depth, spacing and angle. Get those three right for a given elevation and the screen cuts high summer sun while still welcoming the lower, warmer winter light.
The device has pedigree — the brise-soleil ("sun-breaker") was made an architectural language by Le Corbusier and has shaded modernist facades ever since. The twist for us is local: Cape Town sits in the southern hemisphere, so the high sun comes from the north, not the south. Blade angles copied from a European detail point the wrong way. We set ours to the sun path over your actual site — which is the whole point of a screen that's meant to work, not just look the part.
Blade angle and spacing tuned to your orientation to cut glare and heat without going dark.
Screen sightlines while keeping natural ventilation moving behind the line.
Wood-grain aluminium profiles give a warm batten finish with no sealing or rot.
Perforated blade systems double as acoustic treatment for plant screens and road-facing elevations.
Horizontal or vertical blades across glazed elevations that cut cooling load and glare while keeping the view and the daylight. Angled for your site, not a catalogue.
Balconies, walkways and overlooked windows screened so you see out but the street can't see in — with the airflow a solid screen would kill.
Louvred enclosures that hide rooftop plant, generators and refuse areas and still let equipment breathe: ventilation and concealment in one element.
Fixed blades are simpler, cheaper and maintenance-free, and for a known elevation they're usually all you need because we angle them for that aspect. Adjustable blades earn their keep where you want to tune light through the day or across seasons.
Because a blade angle that shades a north-facing London facade lets the sun straight past a north-facing Cape Town one. We set blade pitch to your latitude and orientation so the screen shades when you want shade and opens up for the winter sun.
Yes — angled correctly they block the sightline from below or the side while staying open to air and light. It's the standard fix for an overlooked balcony or bathroom window.
Not when they're engineered and fixed properly. Blade section, span and carrier fixings are all detailed to the wind load — which on the exposed Cape coast is not an afterthought.
They can. Run tight, louvres read as a textured, breathing facade and are often used exactly that way over solid walls and plant rooms.
