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Triangular windows
Everything difficult about a triangle lives in its sharp corner. Where two profiles meet at a narrow angle there is very little metal left to make a joint in, the gasket has to be worked round a point instead of a right angle, and the pane finishes in a tip that must be ground before it goes anywhere near a furnace. So triangles are built as fixed fields, mitred and sealed on the bench rather than assembled in the opening, and the drawing keeps that acute corner as blunt as the elevation will allow. They appear wherever a roof does — a gable over a double-height hall, the apex above a stair, the closing piece at the top of a raking run of glazing.
- the acute corner what limits the shape
- mitred on the bench how it is built
- dressed, then hardened the glass tip
Where a triangle is decided
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Sharp corner
Weak point
Least metal to make a joint in
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Mitred and sealed
Assembly
Closed before it leaves the works
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Round the point
Gasket
Worked, never cut and butted
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Ground tip
Glass
Edge dressed before toughening
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Fixed
Opening
The vent sits in the field below
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Why choose aluminium windows?
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Durable EPDM seals
Three contours of EPDM seals keep the glass off the aluminium and close the gap between sash and frame, so dust, humid salt air and wind-driven rain stay outside.
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Foamed thermal inserts
Foamed inserts fill the profile chambers and stop air circulating inside them, so less outside heat and street noise passes through the frame into the cooled room.
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Polyamide thermal breaks
Glass-filled polyamide thermal breaks up to 40 mm wide keep the outer and inner shells apart, so the frame holds its shape and its insulation through a UAE summer.
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Energy-efficient double glazing
Double glazing up to 60 mm thick puts a sealed gap of still air or gas between the hot street and the cooled room, so less heat crosses the glass into the room.
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How a triangular window is measured and made
- All three angles taken on the built opening Roof pitches drift from the drawing
- Longest edge and its level checked The base sets everything above it
- Acute corner opened where the design allows A blunter tip is a stronger tip
- Frame mitred and sealed in our Dubai factory Corners closed on the bench
- Pane cut to shape, dressed and toughened The tip is the fragile part
- Set, packed and glazed once the frame is true The apex sealed last
Partitions
Office partitions made of aluminium profiles are a simple, quick, and cost-effective way to organise efficient zoning within a large space, while maintaining interior unity.
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Aluminium office partitions with glass
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Full-glass office partitions
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Transformable partitions for the office
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Accordion partitions for the office
Aluminium windows of any configuration
Made to size in our own factory in Dubai — in 3–5 weeks.
We will find convenient opening options:
The honest downside
Before you glaze the gable
A triangle high in a gable is glass you will rarely touch. It sits fixed above a double-height hall or a stair, and washing it from inside usually means a tower or a long ladder; in a sandy week the dust on it simply stays there to look at.
It gives less than it seems, too. The tip that makes the shape holds very little glass for a lot of frame, and it is the weak point — the part that asks the most care in making and cannot be adjusted once set. Off-the-shelf blinds rarely fit it.
Where the room needs the light more than the shape, leaving the apex solid and glazing a rectangular field lower in the gable gives glass you can reach, open beside and shade. A triangle stays the right answer where the gable is the feature and the full shape is what the elevation is about.
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Fixed windows
Frequently asked questions
Because window hardware is built for parallel stiles and square corners. A hinge needs a flat edge, a multi-point lock needs a straight run to throw its cams along, and a triangle offers one usable edge at most. Rather than force gear into a shape that fights it, we glaze the triangle as a fixed light and put the room's ventilation into the rectangular field beneath it, which is where a hand can reach a handle anyway.
It can, provided it is never made on site. At a narrow angle the two profiles overlap in a long thin mitre with very little section left, so the joint is cut, bonded and sealed under bench conditions and the corner is proved before the frame is loaded onto a vehicle. Where the elevation lets us, we also ask the architect for a slightly blunter apex — a few degrees of extra angle puts a surprising amount of metal back into the joint.
It can, for two reasons that are easy to design around and easy to ignore. Glass high in a gable stays in the sun after lower windows have fallen into shade, and the warm air it produces has nowhere to go under a pitched ceiling. Solar-control glass in the triangle deals with the first; an opening leaf placed low in the same room deals with the second by giving the stratified air a path out.
It is common, and it is the reason we measure all three angles instead of one pitch and a mirror. An asymmetric triangle is no harder to make than a symmetrical one — the cutting list simply carries three different figures — but it is impossible to fix afterwards, because there is no adjustment in a fixed field. The survey is where that gets caught.
Related pages
Nearby pages and the rest of the catalogue.
- Aluminium-wood windows
- Arched windows
- Bay windows
- Casement windows
- Corner windows
- Custom shapes
- Double-panel windows
- Energy efficient windows
- Fire-rated windows
- Fixed windows
- Floor-to-ceiling windows
- Folding windows
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