Century City High-Rise Pied-à-Terre

A 32nd-floor condominium with floor-to-ceiling glass on three sides. View was the asset; glare and overnight light were the problems. HOA prohibits any exterior or visible hardware.

Dual-layer motorized program: outboard solar-rated sheer for daytime, inboard three-pass blackout for night. Both on concealed ceiling track set into a soffit added during the buildout. Nothing visible from the exterior; nothing visible to the unit door when stacked.

Outboard: solar sheer with 3% openness, optimized for UV control on west exposure. Inboard: three-pass blackout in a warm bone, face-finished to read as a quiet linen when closed during the day.

Forest Group dual track in a 5-inch soffit. Somfy Sonesse 28 motors, hardwired during the buildout, integrated with the unit's Savant system.

Fullness on the sheer at 90% carrier spacing, on the blackout at 100%. Side returns sealed against the soffit returns with magnetic edge channels to eliminate the city-light leak at night. Stack-back engineered to land on the structural columns between glass panels — invisible when open.

The unit operates as a hotel suite — sheer daytime view preservation, complete overnight darkness, a single Savant scene for each. My recommendation for high-rise residential: coordinate drapery infrastructure during the buildout. Adding concealed track post-occupancy is impossible without ceiling reconstruction.