3 Tools to help you visualize your windows and doors for your project
With new lockdown restrictions coming to Toronto, and a positive outlook on remote working scenarios, individuals and businesses need to adapt to a future in which virtual face to face tasks are the norm. This presents a challenge for homeowners, architects and designers who rely on the touch and feel. Experiencing a product or material in person is instrumental to making confident decision in selecting the right furniture, tiles, flooring, stucco, and of course, window and door systems.
“Every touching experience…is multi- sensory; qualities of matter, space, and scale are measured equally by the eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton, and muscle.”
The touch and feel of a product gives the architect a full scope understanding of not only the product’s look, but also how it occupies space. This makes the architect more informed on how the product will be experienced by the homeowner, who will occupy the space the material is in, every day.
So, what do we do in a world of virtual meetings, social distancing, and lockdowns?
We make it real.
Making it real is how janela brings a prospective window and door design as close to life as possible without actually bringing it to life. By using a few simple online resources and software platforms, we can help you understand the design of your windows and doors and how they can apply to the context of your physical, real life home project - keeping your project moving forward and you COVID 19 free. Each tool is specific to different stages of the window selection process.
Tool #1: The product selection tool
Stage: Early stages. You are researching different window and door suppliers, or different window systems, to find a product that fits the design intent of your project.
Our window and door selection assistant helps you identify the right window and door system for your design needs, as well as any other factors you deem important to the delivery of windows and doors to your project. By gathering information on simple requirements such as level of customization wanted, and performance and budget concerns, you will be presented with:
The right window and door system
The design variants and options for your window and door system
Brochures and catalogs for reference images
CAD files for schematic design
By using our product selection tool, not only are you expediting the process of fining the appropriate designs, you are also collecting a wealth of information that will answer your next set of questions and concerns, before you have a chance to ask them.
Tool #2: Virtual Consultations
Stage: You’ve been considering a window and door system. The reference images are great, and the performance statistics measure up to the standards of your project. However, you need to see the window or door system in the context of a real home.
COVID 19 Is making it more and more difficult to see building materials in person - including windows and doors. To tackle this issue, we use World of Reynaers: a product visualization software showing you all of our window and door systems on contemporary, modern, and traditional homes. You can customize frame design, colour, and functionality to get a full scope understand of how each of our window and door systems work within a residential context
Just check out this instagram post on the right - the clients for this project used our virtual consultations to make their final decision, and the result was a window and door package on par with expectations set during our virtual consultations.
To see what our virtual consultations look like, click below.
Tool #3: CAD
Stage: Either you have made your decision to move forward with your window and door package purchase, and need to work out product design in greater detail. Or, you have extremely detailed design requirements that require a closer look at installation.
If you are an architect or designer, the power and significance CAD gives people to hone in on the details of projects does not need to be iterated. CAD can be an extremely useful tool for working out details such as flush track integration for sliding doors, installation plans, and even sizing windows and doors to fit rough openings. CAD gives architects and designers the power to collaborate with window and door suppliers on a much more efficient and accurate level.
Take a look at our CAD library for basic models of our window and door systems. P.S. - We can always provide you with CAD files for project specific drawings.
There you have it. 3 online tools that give you the best opportunity to develop a full scope understanding of window and door design, and integration for your next residential project. If you found this article helpful, you may find more of our tips useful for purchasing windows and doors.