Coming Soon
This project is in progress. We are providing the window for the reception area of a VA hospital in Orange, New Jersey: a four-panel sliding window that will close the wide opening above the reception counter, between the staff side and the waiting side. The opening has been measured on site. Photographs of the finished window will be added here when it is installed.
Measuring the Opening
The photograph shows our field measurement. The opening is a little over ten feet wide and a little over four feet high, and it was measured in several places, not once: the width at the top and at mid-height, and the height at five points along the counter.
The reason is in the numbers. The width reads 120 3/8 in. at the top and 120 7/16 in. lower down. The height runs from 50 3/32 in. at the left end to 50 11/32 in. at the right, a difference of 1/4 in. across the opening. No built opening is perfectly square or level, and glass cannot be trimmed on site, so the window is made to the smallest dimension with the right clearance, and the difference is taken up in the frame and the sealant joint.
The Design: Four Sliding Panels
A reception window in a medical building separates staff from the public area while keeping them in sight and in conversation. For this opening the design is a sliding window in four glass panels: two panels at the sides and two in the middle. Dividing a ten-foot opening into four keeps each panel to a size that slides easily by hand, and lets staff open the window where they are sitting and close and secure it when the desk is unattended.
See our partition systems and sliding windows pages.
Photographs
Field measurement of the opening, before the window.
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Planning Something Similar?
If you need a reception or transaction window for an office or medical space, send us a photo of the opening and its rough size. We will measure, propose the layout and price it.