Composites from AM Profiles for Revolving ‘Grand Designs’ House

AM Profiles has been selected to supply high performance timber aluminium composite curtain wall and Design-5 windows and doors for a revolutionary house – a house that is on tracks so that the large glazed areas can always face the sun.

The Dumble, a 10,000-sq-ft country house being built by a successful engineer and entrepreneur is circular in construction. It will generate all its own power, have its own water supply and rotate on rails to track and capture the power of the sun and wind.

To meet stringent thermal performance requirements most of the large glazed units will be set into timber aluminium curtain wall. This hybrid curtain wall system features laminated timber mullions and transoms 56mm wide with the depth variable to meet structural needs. The outside of the faceted screens is virtually maintenance free being powder painted aluminium. AM’s Design-5 timber aluminium composite windows and doors are also featured on the project.

The building is so radical that it has been selected to feature on the Channel 4 series ‘Grand Design’. The striking modern building uses a number of ingenious and green building techniques including walls constructed from old car tyres.