A modern sun room is a unique design that can be made in any style, shape, and can be a continuation and decoration of any building. The variety of engineering solutions that Tetra-Group offers you is off the charts.
Lean-To Sun Room
Such a room can be either a glassed-in veranda or a kind of transitional room connecting the house with the street.
The nuance of such a room is that, as a rule, there is no heating. Therefore, such a room is usually used in the summer. If you want to use a lean-to sun room in the cold season, you will have to resort to using electric heaters or IR emitters, which may be quite expensive.
And in this case, it is better to consider other options for designing a sun room.
Residential Sun Room
In modern houses, such rooms are usually designed as part of the living and dining areas, and they become a kind of recreation area.
But it should be understood that in this case a sun room will have a common heating system with the living rooms.
And if you are considering such design of a sun room, be sure to pay due attention to the aspects of heat conservation, waterproofing and ventilation.
If these aspects are neglected, fungi and mold may develop, and they can be extremely difficult to get rid of.
Greenhouse
This option is suitable for those who want to grow tropical plants in a sun room.
For such a room, stable maintenance of a certain climate is extremely important. But for the same reason, such rooms should under no circumstances be considered residential.
But this will be an excellent option for recreational space in your house.
Design Features of Sun Rooms
A modern sun room is a unique design that can be made in any style, shape, and can be a continuation and decoration of any building. The variety of engineering solutions that Tetra-Group offers you is off the charts.
Such architectural structures can be erected on a common foundation with the building, on a separately poured foundation, or on floor slabs.
Despite the fact that sun rooms made of aluminum have a very low weight compared to their counterparts made of other metals, a strong foundation for them is necessary.
Installation of a roofed sun room that will be used in winter is impossible without installing an internal heating system to maintain a stable temperature.
Heating of a room can be done using air systems (air conditioners), electric heaters, creating heated floors, etc.
In closed areas where plants grow, condensation forms abundantly, which must be drained in a timely manner.
For this purpose, automatic natural ventilation systems (periodic ventilation) or forced ones are equipped using special equipment for humidity control.
Location
A greenhouse on a balcony, as part of a terrace, or as a corner, bay window, or direct extension to the house; you determine the location, and we think about how to implement it!
On Balconies, Loggias
A popular solution for urban conditions. It is usually made heated, rather than not-heated. A distinctive feature is the transparent inclined roof.
A glass roof of a balcony or terrace on the top storey, converted into a sun room, should protect plants from direct sunlight.
To do this, you can use tinted electrochromic multiple glazed units.
On a Roof of a Building
A sun room can be built on the flat roof of a house or can be an attic with a single-pitch roof: flat, cross hipped, gambrel, built-in, polygonal.
A transparent roof will provide more sunlight to a sun room located on the north side.
Excess sunlight on the south side can be balanced by using tinted glass or curtains.
As an Extension to a House
A sun room (one-, two- and three-facade), designed as an extension to a house, can have panoramic (floor-to-ceiling) glazing.
To access the premises, the project provides entrance units with a pivot or sliding opening system.
A greenhouse can also be installed in the bay window of a house, above a garage, along the ridge of a roof, as a facade addition, in a buffer passage, on a terrace. In this case, a separate foundation is not required.
Free-standing Building
An autonomous sun room, which is a separate building in a house yard. In this case, a sun room is located separately from a house.
However, this may require making a foundation and bringing additional utility lines. You can place a swimming pool or a gym there.
Add-ons
Modern sun rooms are often complemented by sliding, hinged vertical glazing systems. On hot summer days, you can open the doors wide, increasing ventilation, and in winter, on the contrary, close them tightly to keep out the cold.
Modern sun rooms can be equipped with an automatic ventilation system; air can be supplied both from outside and from inside the main building (if a sun room is attached to a house).
If live plants are placed in a sun room, then caring for the fastidious species will be seriously complicated and time-consuming without automatic temperature control.
If a sun room is automated in many ways, then it is "managed" by a universal intelligent controller that reads readings from many sensors.
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When choosing a suitable location, it is important to pay attention to some nuances
North Side
An option for those who want to create a kind of protective zone that will not let cold winter air into a house. But the main characteristic of sun rooms with this direction is minimal heat accumulation. Therefore, if you decide to build a house with just such a sun room, be prepared to spend money on heating the premises.
East Side
One of the most successful directions for the location of a sun room. The main feature is the long duration of daylight hours at any time of the year. But in the summer, such a sun room would benefit from additional shading to avoid excessive overheating of the premises. Another essential point that should be taken into account is the mandatory presence of forced ventilation.
South Side
Despite the pleasant associations with the word "south," this direction is the most problematic. Construction of a sun room in this direction will be justified only if you grow tropical plants in it. Due to the large amount of heat and light, such a sun room will require increased costs for watering the plants, humidifying the air and room ventilation organizing.
West Side
Suitable for those who consider a sun room as a recreation area. This direction will allow you to save on heating during the cold season. But in the summer, you will have to spend money on air conditioning.
Sun Room Foundation
It is important that the foundation of a sun room is rigidly and inseparably linked to the foundation of the main building; otherwise it will be extremely difficult to control shrinkage. The structure of a sun room is lighter than a house itself, so the dynamics of shrinkage of two unrelated foundations will be different.
This may lead to cracks and drooping at the joints between buildings. TETRA-GROUP company is not involved in the direct design of foundations, but can draw up a technical specification where all loads are calculated and it is indicated at which points of a sun room foundation it is necessary to provide embedded details.
Skylights
Skylights can be either opening or unopening. In the first case, skylights also serve as an additional ventilation unit for the interior of a building.
Moreover, the structure can become part of the fire protection system (smoke escape hatch) of a building.
The second name for a skylight is a rooflight structure. It is a glass dome, a light-transmitting elevation above a roof. Skylights can be double pitch, arc-shaped, have a pyramidal or other shape according to an architect's idea. Such a glass dome allows more natural light to pass through than a window of the same size installed vertically. This explains the popularity of skylights in modern construction. To construct a rooflight structure, a lightweight and durable aluminum frame is used, self-supporting or reinforced with steel elements (for large skylight sizes), with a profile containing condensate drain.
Standard Structures
Skylights (glass domes) are a very practical invention providing indoor lighting with natural light.
Aluminum glass domes are widely used for lighting both private houses (country villas) and industrial buildings.
Due to its location on a roof plane, a skylight allows 1.5 times more light to pass through than a regular window.
Flat Single-pitch
Multi-pitch Pyramidal
Double-pitch
Arched
Dome-shaped
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