Sliding Visions

Visions of beauty Open your home to beauty with Sliding Visions glass doors. Tall panels of glass up to fourteen feet high bring the outdoors into your rooms and let you live in the sunshine. Whether your home has a view of mountains, ocean, city lights, countryside, or a beloved garden, Sliding Visions doors will bring beauty into your house and your life. Architect can work with Architectural Imports to create a new concept in living: a home where indoors and outdoors merge. At the touch of a hand, broad panels of glass slip aside so your home joins the beauty of the world outside. Open your home. Open your life. Live in the sunlight with Sliding Visions!

Life with Sliding Visions

Imagine the home of your client’s dreams: a place of light, freedom, and space. From the outside, smooth walls of glass make a stunning design statement. From inside, those expanses of glass show the vistas that surround your home. With Sliding Visions you can build that home, living close to nature but safe and secure. Let Sliding Visions doors glide open and create easy access to the pool, patio, or outdoor fireplace. Sliding Visions doors make the home full of hospitality and when the client wants to entertain, their guests can stroll in and out without traffic bottlenecks at a small door across a flowing transformation from inside the home to outside. Entertaining can be more sophisticated, more impressive. Let the doors glide shut again and enjoy the magnificent view of mountains, river, sea, or cityscape from the comfort of a controlled climate. Thermal coatings on Sliding Visions glass doors minimize thermal loss, and lower your energy costs.

Sliding Visions doors can beautify any house: All three collections are perfect for new construction or for retrofitting in existing structures. Architectural Imports Northwest can help you choose the system that will fit best in your application, addressing both technical and aesthetic considerations. • • •

The Architectural Collection — Magnificent panels of glass in stock sizes up to ten feet high, for sliding systems. The Panorama Collection — Custom glass doors in flat, curved or angled configurations to make your home truly unique. The Bronze Age Collection — Stunning frames and glass to coordinate with today’s rich bronze-finish hardware.

Architectural Collection The Architectural Collection offers sliding doors and fixed-glass panels in stock sizes up to ten feet tall. These standard sizes are those most commonly used in residential construction. They make installation easy and predictable in new construction or while up-fitting existing property. Stiles are made of an aluminum/wood composite for true integrity. Their strength lets you place Sliding Visions glass systems in some of the exposed locations where homeowners want a broad view--mountain, hillside, coastline, or lakefront sites. The Newlar™ aluminum exterior finish is available in four stock colors that compliment any exterior application. For energy efficiency, the Newlar™ finish and Cardinal Low-E IG glass let the Architectural Collection qualify for Green Building Credits. On the interior, the Architectural Collection will delight you visually. It features vertical-grain Douglas fir molding, our handsome standard door hardware selection and the stainless-steel “Barely There”™ track system. This elegant track system is slightly recessed, lying flush with the floor so that there is no ugly protruding standard track to trip over. It provides for a smooth expanse of floor on either side of the glass door. Your installation is protected by our Architectural Collection Warrantee so you can build with confidence. The architectural collection is limited to the sizes and configurations of lift and slide (or hinged Entry) door systems shown in the following tables.

Lift and Slide Systems  

 

Width, Height and Rough Opening Configuration for 6’-8” Height (Nominal Dimensions)

  36" Panels PXX

72 11/16

Rough Opening for 8’-0” Height

Rough Opening for 9’-0” Height

Rough Opening for 10’-0”Height

72 11/16

72 11/16

7211/16

  36" Panels PXXX

105 11/16

105 11/16

105 11/16

  36" Panels 141 1/2 PXXXXP   36" Panels PXXXX 138 11/16

141 1/2

141 1/2

141 1/2

138 11/16

138 11/16

138 11/16

  36" Panels XXP

72 5/8

72 5/8

72 5/8

  36" Panels XXXP 105 5/8   36" Panels XXXXP 138 5/8

105 5/8 138 5/8

105 5/8 138 5/8

105 5/8 138 5/8

  36" Panels OX

73

73

73

73

  36" Panels OXX

106

106

106

106

  36" Panels OXXX   36" Panels OXXO

139 142 3/16

139 142 3/16

139 142 3/16

139 142 3/16

  36" Panels XO

73

73

73

73

  36" Panels XXO   36" Panels XXXO  

106 1/16 139

106 1/16 139

106 1/16 139

106 1/16 139

Rough Opening for 8’-0” Height

Rough Opening for 9’-0” Height

Rough Opening for 10’-0”Height

 

105 11/16

72 5/8

Width, Height and Configuration Rough Opening for 6’-8” Height (Nominal Dimensions)

  48" Panels PXX   48" Panels PXXX

96 11/16 141 11/16

96 11/16 141 11/16

96 11/16 141 11/16

96 11/16 141 11/16

  48" Panels XXP

96 5/8

96 5/8

96 5/8

96 5/8

  48" Panels XXXP   48" Panels OX

141 9/16 97

141 9/16 97

141 9/16 97

141 9/16 97

  48" Panels OXX

142

142

142

142

  48" Panels XO 97 97 97 97   48" Panels XXO 142 142 142 142 Key: P=Pocket, X=Operable Door Panel, O=Fixed Door Panel, for other sizes and configurations see our Panorama Collection SDL bars are available on all panels in stock configurations.

Panorama Collection With the Panorama Collection of custom door systems you can create your own vision of natural beauty. Smooth panels of glass can be made in any dimensions you wish, up to 70 square feet in a single panel. Glass doors fourteen feet high can be formed with curved or straight segments to create brilliant spaces in almost any shape. Radius Systems offer curved, stationary panels of glass with glass doors that glide along them in a smooth arc. With the Radius Systems you can create round, demi-lune, quarter-round, or bowed sections of glass with a minimum radius of eleven feet and a maximum radius as wide as you like. You can make a round retreat lit by sun- and moonlight, a conservatory, or a special aerie from which to enjoy your view. Serpentine Systems use two or more Radius System sections to create a wave shape. These curved lengths of glass make an absolutely original design statement. Use them to define interior spaces, too. Again, the radius of the curved glass sections is a minimum of eleven feet, and the maximum is as far as your imagination can reach. Linear Systems are straight sections of glass that can take the form of fixed panels, pocket doors, or sliding doors, fabricated in any configuration. Each panel can be up to 70 square feet and/or 850 pounds. Angle Systems join two, three or more straight door systems in a corner, tee, or cross shape. The combination of fixed and sliding glass doors can create a variety of shapes and connections to make your home visually unique. The Details The doors of the Panorama Collection glide easily on almost-unnoticeable stainless steel “Barely There”™ tracks. With the touch of your hand our Lift and Slide mechanism effortlessly carries glass panels weighing up to 850 pounds. There are no awkward, protruding floor tracks to damage your fine flooring or endanger your guests. Your floor stretches smoothly, with nothing to interrupt the view. The design options are nearly endless: • • • • •

We offer a broad assortment of elegant door hardware in the most popular styles and metal finishes coordinating with almost any interior design concept. With the Panorama Collection you can choose Cardinal Glass thermally coated or self-cleaning glass to minimize labor and make your home energy efficient. Handsome Newlar™ exterior finishes complement the outside of your home. For the interior door surround, you may select exotic or domestic wood in any available species and finish to complement your choices in furnishings. Our four-inch aluminum/wood composite door stiles won’t twist or warp. They can carry the load of the heaviest panels, so you can be sure of the structural integrity of the system you choose.