The Sophab Solarium is a curved, glazed arch that wraps one wall of the home you already own. It captures low winter sun to pre-heat the house, shades the high summer sun, and gives you a bright four-season room in between.
The half-arch geometry is tuned to the sun's path at your latitude — steep enough to catch the low winter sun, angled to shade the high summer sun. The wall behind it becomes a warm buffer instead of a cold, wind-hit surface.
Low winter sun pours through the glazing and warms the air against your wall, pre-heating the home before your furnace or heat pump ever runs. On a sunny winter day the solarium can reach the low 30s °C inside — far above the ~20 °C your house needs, and that surplus is what gets banked.
The high summer sun is turned away by the curve, and retractable interior shades reject the rest — so the room stays comfortable instead of baking.
Bright, sheltered space you actually use year-round — a sunroom, a mudroom buffer, a place to start seedlings — that happens to lower your energy bill.
Locally fabricated timber ribs bent to the arch, skinned in clear or translucent polycarbonate, on a base sized to your wall. Designed to last in the Canadian climate — and almost entirely recyclable or reusable if it's ever taken down.
Every Sophab Solarium is customized to your home.
The Solarium is a retrofit, not a rebuild. We start from your real building footprint and lot lines, check every wall for sun, shade and buildable room, and size the arch to the wall that gives you the most.
The design tool is free. You get a 3D model on your home, a site plan, an estimate of winter heat and savings, and an itemized cost — before you spend a dollar.
Own a commercial building? The same half-arch bolted to a commercial wall becomes leasable floor area — patios, market stalls, glazed arcades — see the Sophab Atrium and run the rent maths →