Coming soon
Architectural Solar Shading
Project-led exterior shading for windows and façades where geometry and orientation justify it.
Extreme Heat & Solar Control · reduce the load before increasing cooling
The cheapest unit of cooling is the heat you prevent from entering.
Extreme heat becomes a building-resilience problem when high solar gain meets grid stress, smoke or power interruption. Apollo's pathway starts with exterior solar control and lower heat loads before adding more active cooling capacity.
Wind Flood Fire Heat Outage
Protection pathways
Build the protection package around the actual risk.
Available now
Velaris Exterior Blinds
Track-guided exterior blind systems for solar control, privacy and selected weather-exposed openings.
Open pathwayAvailable now
Storm Shutters
Selected shutter systems can also reduce direct solar exposure in hot, storm-prone environments.
Open pathwayAvailable now
Exterior Zip Screens
Guided screen pathways using the existing Velaris product platform.
Open pathwayPlanning pathway
Low-Load Refuge Zone
Plan one smaller area that is easier to keep shaded, ventilated or cooled during disruption.
Open pathwayPlanning pathway
Clean-Air Mode
Coordinate heat control with filtered-air strategy where wildfire smoke or poor outdoor air can limit natural ventilation.
Open pathwayComing soon
Essential Power
Size future backup around the reduced cooling load rather than trying to reproduce normal whole-house demand.
Open pathwayPlanning pathway
New-Build Solar Control
Use orientation, glazing, shade and service planning before the house is fixed around a large cooling load.
Open pathwayRange development
Current systems plus the next verified product families.
Coming Soon means the category belongs in the Weather Protection programme, but the final supplier, model, technical evidence and project limits are still being verified before Apollo publishes a product specification.
Architectural exterior shading
Additional design-led façade and opening-shading systems beyond the existing Velaris range.
Heat-reflective exterior pathways
Selected roof or façade products only after verified technical data and climate-appropriate application review.
Low-load cooling + backup packages
Future continuity packages centred on the refuge-zone approach rather than whole-house autonomy by default.
01Weather protection strategy
Shade before glass where solar gain is the problem.
Exterior shading intercepts solar energy before it crosses the glazing. Exterior blinds, shutters and screens can therefore have both normal-day comfort value and hazard-day resilience value.
02Weather protection strategy
The envelope buys time during an outage.
Insulation, air control, suitable glazing, shading and climate-appropriate materials can slow indoor temperature drift. The resilience target is not only lower energy use; it is a building that remains safer and more usable for longer when active cooling is unavailable.
03Weather protection strategy
Air movement is a low-load resilience tool.
Ceiling fans and targeted air movement can improve comfort at far lower electrical demand than whole-house cooling. That makes them useful when defining essential loads and refuge-room strategies.
04Weather protection strategy
Heat and smoke must be planned together.
Natural ventilation may be useful when outside air is cooler and clean, but it can become the wrong strategy during smoke or extreme outdoor heat. A resilient property needs more than one operating mode.
Apollo method
MAP → PRIORITISE → VERIFY → INTEGRATE → MAINTAIN
Map the hazard and building interfaces. Prioritise where failure has the greatest consequence. Verify the exact product evidence and local design requirements. Integrate structure, drainage, power, access and recovery. Maintain the system so the protection remains real rather than historical.
Technical evidence standard
Framework first. Exact evidence before claims.
The planning framework helps identify what to protect and which questions to ask. Actual structural, flood, electrical, wildfire, drainage and product-performance decisions remain tied to current local requirements, exact supplier documentation and qualified professional input where required.
Apollo NZ Global · International project supply
Build the weather-protection package around the property.
Send the location, plans, photos, opening dimensions and the weather risks you are trying to manage. If a product family is still marked Coming Soon, we can also use the project brief to guide sourcing and technical verification.