Operating buildings accounts for 26% of global energy-related carbon emissions, the majority being indirect emissions from the production of electricity and heat used in buildings. To add context, this is higher than the entire transportation industry and rivals agriculture. This is a crucial issue to tackle given the long lifetime of buildings, yet options to tackle these emissions in existing buildings have been limited and costly.

Solgami ALS is a carbon-neutral retrofit solution, individually designed to create a comfortable internal environment whilst combating the negative environmental impact of standardised modernist architecture.

Solgami ALS is based on fundamental architectural strategies of mitigating temperature fluctuations to internal environments.

When designing a new building, architects have many opportunities to consider internal comfort in addition to building effiency, such as reducing temperature loading, ongoing costs of operation, and the amount of carbon a building will utilise throughout its lifetime.

This is a complex and expensive procedure. Retrofitting or modifying an existing building is no different.

Solgami ALS is designed using architectural logic and performance, instilled into a window screen that is 20mm thick, able to be installed by the purchaser with no special tools.

By using natural light and insulation to heat, cool and illuminate our internal environments, Solgami is an opportunity to tackle the complex dilemma of sustainability in the enduring built environment and decrease carbon emissions from our existing buildings.