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| As a modern society, we’re spending about 90% of our time indoors – at home, in offices or commuting. How is it possible to get access to daylight, when we can’t naturally be outside? By making buildings more transparent.
| The reduction of greenhouse gases is one of the most important goals of the international climate policy. Today, roughly one third of all greenhouse gas emissions is created by urban population.
| It is estimated that 100 million to 1 billion birds a year perish due to collisions with glass.(1-2) In North America, some communities have enacted legislation aimed at protecting birds by calling for the design and installation of birdsafe glazing.
| This paper will discuss the psychology of perception, threshold, and emotion in interior glass design.
| Windows have always been at the intersection of various technologies and architectural processes that evolved in parallel and often intertwined.
| Curved insulated glass units formed by tempered bending or annealed slumped bending offer a bold expression of architectural design with transparency and energy efficiency.
| New generation thin, lightweight and damageresistant glass seems to be the optimal material for extremely deformable structural elements for façades and building skins.
| Re-thinking the life-cycle of architectural glass brings together recent research into the economic, technical, environmental and logistical viability of closed-loop construction glass recycling.
| Daylight control is a main resource of energy saving in buildings. Daylight control systems with mirror optics have the potential to save air conditioning due to the ability to reflect the solar rays back into the sky.
| Along with the multifunctionality of the building skin, BIPV today involves a new aesthetics in contemporary architecture.
| There have several type smart glass, what is the difference for different type? How can you know that and choose right?
| Presented below are some of the special challenges facing the skilled glass-processing trades: many products are becoming smarter.
| Glass is enhanced with added functions to form an integral part of the building network. We are still in the early stages of development.
| A modular system allows you to create a larger design by joining glass panels together in a line.
| This paper presents a case study of an adaptive sunscreen facade and evaluation of its performance and occupant behavior.
| Glass has entered the sustainability vernacular in a big way, which is great news for builders.
| To provide stiffness, shading and privacy with abundant daylight and a feeling of openness for restaurant extensions and an entrance canopy to a London hotel, we used glass sandwich panels with aluminium honeycomb core.
| A sustainable office design has gone from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have” achievement. The question is no longer if business will incorporate sustainable design, but when.
| Read this guide for an in-depth look at the best in smart home technology for 2017.