The transparency of the glass, creating a line between existing and non-existent, has been very effective in the design.
Glass, which was first used in windows, took its place in different parts of the buildings over time.
Usage area of glass; It can be diversified by changing the
various materials applied to the glass surface and other properties of the
glass.
One of the many functional features that glass adds to our lives is that it increases the visual and thermal comfort of the user and the size of the ventilation.
The Glass House / AR Design Studio
GLASS USE IN BUILDINGS
Glass provides various solutions such as the use of natural
light in the space, providing transparency, benefiting from sunlight and energy
saving in the building.
As ASPEN, we have compiled a few projects where glass is involved in the design for you:
Glass Farmhouse / Olson Kundig
Located on a high point of a plateau, Glass Farmhouse was inspired by Philip Johnson's Glass House and was created with the idea of a shelter that opens to the countryside and mountains. The building, which houses farm equipment at the bottom and guest rooms at the top, consists of steel-framed glasses on three sides.
K11 Art and Culture Center / SO-IL
K11 Art and Culture Center is a building located above the Shopping Center and below the 12-story luxury residences. The upper two floors of the building are combined with a roof that functions as a sculpture terrace.
While museums generally avoid interacting with their urban
environment, this design has adopted transparency to commercialize the museum
and incorporate it into the city space.
The museum is surrounded by a façade of 475 glass tubes, each nine meters high, one meter in diameter, and two tons in weight. When viewed from the street, the sculptural appearance and visual strikingness of glass create an abstraction effect that separates the museum from the city.
The Glass Fortress / Archismith Architects
The Glass Fortress serves as a sales gallery for a project in Bangkok. Due to its proximity to its competitor's sales gallery, the building had to set itself apart from its competitor. As a solution, the sales gallery used 20,000 glass blocks in the building to create a focal point, dedicating some of its lands to become a pocket park in the urban area.
The appearance of the facade is constantly changing, depending on the state of sunlight and the shade of the trees. At night, the glass blocks are illuminated and turned into a giant lantern. The glass blocks used in the project are rectangular in shape, unlike the traditional square-shaped blocks.
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