Hotel Le Temps – Trichy
Trichy
- Client
- Hotel Le Temps, Trichy
- Location
- Trichy
- Year
- 2023
- Sector
- Hospitality
Hotel Le Temps is a hospitality project in Tiruchirappalli, an inland Tamil Nadu city where solar gain rather than sea air is the governing glazing problem. TPRS Glass supplied processed architectural glass for the project.
The glazing brief
What hospitality glazing has to deliver
Hotel glazing is specified against two things guests notice immediately: temperature and noise. Solar control glass keeps guest rooms comfortable without dimming the view, while an asymmetric insulated unit with an acoustic interlayer deals with traffic noise that a standard double glazed unit would pass straight through. Lobbies, atria and banquet spaces add large-format safety glazing, where panel size alone makes laminated construction the right answer for anything overhead or guarding a level change.
Glass Range
Lines used in hospitality work
Glass Insights
Hospitality glazing questions
Normally an insulated unit with a solar control or low-emissivity coating, and increasingly with one laminated pane for acoustic performance. The coating handles heat and glare without darkening the view, which matters because the view is part of what the room is selling. The laminated pane handles noise, and an asymmetric make-up with panes of differing thickness performs considerably better than a symmetric one.
By mass, asymmetry and damping together. Two panes of the same thickness resonate at the same frequency and pass it straight through, so pairing different thicknesses is the single most effective change. An acoustic PVB interlayer then damps vibration across the speech and traffic range. Specify against a measured decibel target for the noise actually present, because a make-up that works against road traffic may not work against aircraft.
It changes the hardware and the seals more than the glass itself. Salt-laden air attacks fixings, gaskets and the edge seals of insulated units faster than inland air does, so fixing materials and edge-seal durability need specifying for the environment rather than taken from a standard detail. Solar loading is usually higher on an open coastal elevation too.
Large-format safety glazing. Panel size alone makes these positions safety-critical: a pane that people walk past at speed, or that spans a level change, needs toughened or laminated construction and manifestation so it is visible. Anything overhead should be laminated, so fragments are retained rather than falling.