Lantern Roof Construction

Think flat roof but with a supporting up stand or kerb and then glass box construction on top.

Lantern roof construction.

Glass roof systems and roof lanterns provide the appeal of a traditional conservatory. Architectural lanterns are part of a larger roof and provide natural light into the space or room below. Crafted using accoya timber. They offer state of the art security long lasting durability and performance and a range of frame colours to complement your space.

We have fabricated them for pool enclosures kitchens sitting rooms libraries stairwells and anywhere that natural light may enhance the aesthetic of your home or business. They allow for flexibility in wall design and window placement. The korniche aluminium roof lantern engineered and developed by made for trade specifically with the trade and installer at the. Roof lanterns can be constructed completely of aluminum or include a warm wood interior.

Roof lanterns are generally installed above the main roof line. Atlas roof lanterns come in a range of traditional and contemporary styles and are renown for their ease of installation. The square pvc u lantern roof that offers perfectly balanced sight lines and thanks to its simple 4 hip design higher levels of natural light than conventional designs of the same surface area. A roof lantern is a daylighting architectural element.

Obviously written communication with drawings plan and section is absolutely essential in order to ensure good detailing between our roof lanterns and the builder s supporting kerb upstand. Each system can be incorporated into glazed structures or conventional construction. Atlas roof lanterns let in around three times as much daylight into a room as a classic flat roof window flooding the room with daylight and reducing the need for artificial lighting. Sponsored by made for trade.

The roof lantern is a hybrid roof solution. It borrows conservatory roof technology and combines it with a traditional flat roof to create a highly flexible solution which maximizes the flow of light into pre existing and new rooms. Whether you re looking for a natural lighting system that can be incorporated into a glazed structure or as part of conventional construction our lantern roofs are the ideal solution. A lantern roof will generally mean just the roof of a lantern structure in the west but has a special meaning in indian architecture where it means a dome like roof raised by sets of four straight beams placed above each other arranged in diminishing squares and rotated.

In contemporary use it is an architectural skylight structure.