I don't understand the difference between fins and louvers when it comes to facade daylight control methods. According to the textbook I have it says they both block direct sunlight and I've searched images of them and they both seem the same...
Wood Guy
May 6, 21 2:50 pm
Fins are usually fixed. Louvres are usually operable.
bowling_ball
May 6, 21 5:55 pm
Interesting. Around here, louvres refer to being attached to some mechanical system, while fins are... decorative only? Never thought much about it before
Koww
May 7, 21 4:01 am
louvers are generally sets of overlapping fins that allow airflow but block rain. louvers don't have to be operable. anything can be operable, fins included.
randomised
May 6, 21 3:44 pm
Fins are from Finland and the Louvre is in Paris, France not Texas? Or what WG said ^
Josh Mings
May 6, 21 6:03 pm
I thought Finns were in Scandinavia and Virginia was for Louvers.
citizen
May 6, 21 6:36 pm
Fins hang out casually, but louvers sometimes get married.
Peter Normand
May 6, 21 8:06 pm
One cost more?
Josh Mings
May 6, 21 8:22 pm
They’re clearly different. Jimmy Buffett didn’t sing “Louvers to the left” after all
I don't understand the difference between fins and louvers when it comes to facade daylight control methods. According to the textbook I have it says they both block direct sunlight and I've searched images of them and they both seem the same...
Fins are usually fixed. Louvres are usually operable.
Interesting. Around here, louvres refer to being attached to some mechanical system, while fins are... decorative only? Never thought much about it before
louvers are generally sets of overlapping fins that allow airflow but block rain. louvers don't have to be operable. anything can be operable, fins included.
Fins are from Finland and the Louvre is in Paris, France not Texas? Or what WG said ^
I thought Finns were in Scandinavia and Virginia was for Louvers.
Fins hang out casually, but louvers sometimes get married.
One cost more?
They’re clearly different. Jimmy Buffett didn’t sing “Louvers to the left” after all