The world through rose-tinted glasses: Vanceva

Architects and interior designers have long known the benefits of glazing. Well-considered glass can make internal spaces appear bigger, and bring in natural light, transforming a single room or an entire building. Modern construction techniques mean it’s now possible to create windows and skylights on an unprecedented scale. The next step for the creatively ambitious is to introduce colour. The most effective way of doing this is with interlayering.

Fabricated in its plants around the world, Vanceva’s interlayers comprise polyvinyl butyral. Sandwiched between two panes of glass, the heat- and light-stable colorants bring functional benefits to glazing. They offer protection from harmful UV radiation, glare and solar energy transmittance, and reduce solar heat gain by blocking up to 99% of damaging UV light. This helps delay colour fading and the deterioration of fabrics and furnishings.

Durability is increasingly important to the architectural world and its clients. Rather than a quick fix, there is now a value in products which perform effectively for years to come.

Such high functionality works best when paired with aesthetics. By combining up to four of Vanceva’s colour interlayers, specifiers can choose from more than 17,000 transparent, translucent or solid colours – by far the biggest range of any brand of PVB interlayers. Meaning the savvy designer will see fresh potential in balconies, curtain walls, atriums, skylights, partitions, conference rooms and doors. It’s all a far cry from simply applying a coloured film to glass.

As the creative industry becomes bolder, and its specifications more exacting, it could be colour that makes the difference.

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