Daylight,
drawn into
the room.
A specialist studio for the considered roof aperture — conservation skylights, lantern roofs, and full architectural glazing, drawn for the way the sun crosses your house.
Fifteen years of glass roofs, drawn one at a time.
since MMXI
Four quiet reasons
to cut the roof.
A roof aperture changes a room more than any wall window. Below, four observations from fifteen years of cutting them — measured, not imagined.
Three times the light.
A south-facing roof aperture admits roughly three times the daylight of a vertical window of the same area. The sun does not pass over a wall — it passes over a roof.
A room with weather.
A room with a roof aperture is a room that reads the sky. Cloud, rain, the morning's first blue, the long evenings — the room becomes a quiet record of the day.
A summer that cools.
Hot air collects at the highest point of a room. An openable roof aperture vents that heat by convection alone — and reduces the need for mechanical cooling by up to thirty-eight percent in summer.
A winter that holds.
Triple-glazed low-emissivity units, argon-filled, now hold the room warmer through January than the un-insulated wall they replace. The aperture earns its heat back, and a little more besides.
Five kinds
of cut.
Hover each line — the image follows. Five disciplines, drawn at the schematic stage, executed by the same nine craftsmen since MMXI.
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Conservation skylights
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Architectural glass roofs
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Lantern roofs
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Roof oculi
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Restoration & re-glazing
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Three recent
cuts.
A small selection. The full ledger of four hundred and eighty-six apertures is available on request, by appointment.
The Holland Park Lantern
Cotswolds Oculus
The Spitalfields Conservation
Cut a circle
of sky into
your house.
A daylight study is the first thing we do — a survey, a sun-path drawing, and a written brief on what your roof can hold. £1,200, refunded against the commission.
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