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Adaptive Fritting™building façades Adaptive Fritting™ is an integrated glass unit with a custom moveable graphic pattern that can modulate its transparency to control transmitted light, solar gain, privacy, and views. While conventional fritting relies on a fixed pattern, Adaptive Fritting™ can control its transparency and modulate between opaque and transparent states. This performance is achieved by shifting a series of fritted glass layers so that the graphic pattern alternately aligns and diverges. Glass fritting is an established architectural treatment for passive solar control; Adaptive Fritting™ imbues this treatment with the expanded functionality of movement. The benefit is twofold: It provides architects with a new design element that is a familiar part of their vocabulary, and it increases the performance of standard fritting by creating a customizable shading scheme while preserving transparency where desired. Adaptive Fritting™ offers opportunity for complete design flexibility and architectural integration. Panels can be composed of fritted glass or plastics, at scales ranging from .5 to 3 meters. Patterning options are infinite: geometric grids, color variations and images, non-uniform fields or gradients, even organic and non-repeating patterns are possible. US & International Patents Pending  Adaptivity Benefits
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