Connection without comfort isn’t design — it’s distraction.
Discover what’s possible with Solera Reserve™
For over 30 years, Solera® has been used in museums, schools, airports and cultural landmarks to bring glare-controlled daylight, thermal comfort and privacy to demanding spaces.
Solera Reserve™ brings that same performance-led, glass-based translucent glazing approach to refined residential design, giving architects and homeowners more freedom to balance daylight, privacy, views and comfort.
Better homes carefully manage the connection between the interior and exterior. This is challenging with conventional building materials.
THE PROBLEM WITH OPAQUE
Brick, concrete, cladding — these protect us from the elements and offer great insulation and privacy. But when we use too much opaque, we end up creating a home that looks and feels dull and ordinary; dark and cave-like.
SO WE ADD CLEAR GLASS
Big glass looks spectacular and brings in views and connection to the outside. But it also comes with excessive heat, painful glare, a lack of privacy, and ultimately, blinds.
THE RESULT
Wouldn’t it be great if a glazing material could keep you connected to nature while turning harsh sunlight into gentle, comfortable light? With the right balance of vision glass and translucent glazing, it can help manage glare, preserve the views that matter, provide privacy where you need it, and reduce reliance on blinds.
We now have a building material that bridges the gap between Transparent and Opaque to create better homes for people and the environment:
Introducing a third option
Translucent Glazings
Translucent glazings convert harsh, direct-beam sunlight into gentle, diffused daylight, deep into the space.
Solera Reserve™ is designed to soften direct sunlight into comfortable, diffused daylight. By balancing vision glass with translucent glazing, the right configuration can help manage glare and hot spots while preserving the views and privacy that matter most in your home.
Strategically place vision glass where you want clear sightlines and connection to the outdoors — not excessively, as too much leads to glare and hot spots.
Place translucent glazing above, below, or beside vision glass to bring soft, diffused daylight into the room. With the right configuration, it can help manage glare, preserve your views, and reduce reliance on blinds.
Add opaque building materials where you don’t need views or daylight — structure, privacy, and insulation where it counts.
The result is a better home that not only looks amazing inside and out but also feels great to be in — beautifully connected to nature, comfortable, and with unobstructed views.
When designing your dream home, you will want it to look and perform the way you designed it, for as long as possible. Many homeowners also want to avoid materials that have a negative impact on the health and well-being of their family as well as the environment.
Your choice of translucent glazing material has a direct impact. This is why it’s so important to understand your options.
Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (FRP) and Polycarbonate systems were pioneers of translucent glazings, offering strong light diffusion and respectable insulation values. However, as plastic-based products, they fall well short of today’s sustainability expectations. Prone to UV degradation and discoloration, they often require replacement within 10 to 20 years — making them, in essence, a form of architectural single-use plastic.
Acid-Etched Glass and White Laminate Glass offer longevity and visual appeal due to being glass-based. However, their performance stops at the surface. These materials lack the ability to diffuse light properly to mitigate glare or eliminate hot spots, and their low insulation values can result in uncomfortable interiors — too hot in summer, too cold in winter.
Solera Reserve™ isn’t just glass. It’s a signature — a mark of distinction.
Solera® offers a clean, simple, elegant aesthetic for the exterior, while flooding the interior with soft, gentle daylight. This creates a home that not only feels amazing to be in, but also benefits your family’s health and wellness.
Your home will glow like a beacon, standing out from every other home on the street while translucent Solera® glazing maintains privacy after dark.
Comfort, sustainability, and serenity — all in one material.
Solera® lets you design with abundant glass while configuring daylight, solar control, and insulation to help manage glare, solar heat gain, and heating and cooling demand.
Selected Solera® configurations provide centre-of-glass R-values up to R-25, with configuration-specific light transmission and solar-control values. We help select the right unit for your home’s orientation, glazing area, climate, and comfort goals.
Natural diffused light can reduce your reliance on artificial lighting.
Solera® harnesses the power of the sun to deliver soft, evenly distributed daylight deep into your space, helping reduce the need for electric lighting during the day.
Whether it’s due to construction, noisy neighbors, or simply an urban location, now, you can let the light in and keep the noise out.
Many Solera® configurations achieve STC 48, helping you keep outside noise out while bringing daylight in. Our technical team will confirm acoustic performance for your selected glazing and framing assembly.
Solera® brings full-spectrum natural daylight into the home, transforming raw sunlight into soft, diffused light while helping maintain privacy and protect views.
Daylight is the body’s primary daytime cue for circadian rhythm. In the Heschong Mahone Group’s 1999 study of 21,000 school records across three districts, students in classrooms with the most daylighting progressed 20% faster in math and 26% faster in reading than students in classrooms with the least daylighting. Artificial LED lighting can brighten a room, but it cannot replace the continually changing spectrum and intensity of full-spectrum natural daylight. At home, Solera® makes that daylight part of everyday living without blinds blocking the windows.
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LISTEN NOWSolera® empowers architects and homeowners to design with freedom and intention. It makes it possible to embrace large expanses of glass while maintaining full, glare-free daylight and soft, ambient interiors.
Solera® preserves privacy, often without the need for blinds or curtains, supports clean, uninterrupted lines, and helps reduce noise pollution, all while elevating the overall design aesthetic.
The result is a space that feels calm, private, and beautifully alive with light.
Solera® is true glass, engineered for lasting beauty, comfort, and performance. With a Class A interior-finish classification, it brings tested fire performance to refined residential design.
Trusted for decades in high-profile commercial projects and cultural institutions, Solera® brings that same proven reliability to refined residential design.
