GLASS SPANDRELS
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
BENEFITS & APPLICATIONS
Spandrel made of glass are often used to have a continuous, smooth fully glazed façade. The spandrel glass can be complementary or contrasting in color when compared to the appearance of the vision glass.
Whatever the aesthetic sought, Saint-Gobain Glass offers complete services to achieve the desired design and propose spandrel glass harmonized to vision glass in order to assure the homogeneity and the full beauty of the façade
APPEARANCE
Depending of the desired design of the building, the spandrels can have different «look» and «match» with the vision glass in order to achieve an uninterrupted, pure glass façade, simply harmonized with it or inversely fully contrasted for offering to the façade an original rythmed design.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
RANGE
The main component of glass spandrel is the opaque colored glass, comprising uniform enameling on one side of the glass. There are several kinds of spandrel, all presenting some advantages or drawbacks (cost, flexibility, aesthetic, maintenance, thermal performance…).
In the following we are considering 3 configurations:
- a monolithic glass which may comprise a COOL-LITE® ST or ST BRIGHT SILVER coating with enamel on #2
- an insulated glazing unit (IGU) with Saint-Gobain Glass solar control coatings on #2 and enamel on #4
- a "Shadow-Box" configuration with ventilated cavity, of similar composition comparable to the IGU.
Processing
Enamels are firstly developed for printing on standard raw soda-lime based float glass. During the tempering process of the glass, the enamels melt and fuse permanently to the glass surface to form a colored ceramic layer. For some applications, there may be a need of enameling coated glass, among others glass spandrels.
Hereafter a summary for our main COOL-LITE® products families.
PERFORMANCE
