I am looking for some exmples of buildings where the glass skin is an important aspect of the building. Interests include colour in glass, translucency, frosting, reflections, or interesting effects created by different types of glass. As well, that change their appearence, and that of the building throughout the course of the day...
list any of your favorite projects if you can think of any.
there is a dutch project that was entirely constructed of laminated layers of structural glass -- a house -- the name and architect escape me, though, so sorry that i'm not much help...
H&deM art pavillion in Munich and the Eberswalde library
Norman Foster's Willis Faber & Dumas office
von Gerkan Marg and Partners Volkenroda pavillion
Wiel Aret's police station in Cuijk
THat project from Moneo is spectacular, I especially like the light quality on the interior and the contrast between the glass sken and wood finishes of the interior
Webler & Geissler's Gotz HQ in Würzburg: Shades of Green.. pretty interesting:
Wiel Arets' University Library in Utrecht has an interesting design of screen printed glass with an organic pattern (branches or trees).. though I read somewhere that it seems the users are not quite happy with the results... (the light filtered through the patterns makes it difficult to concentrate or something like that)
glass skins in architecture
I am looking for some exmples of buildings where the glass skin is an important aspect of the building. Interests include colour in glass, translucency, frosting, reflections, or interesting effects created by different types of glass. As well, that change their appearence, and that of the building throughout the course of the day...
list any of your favorite projects if you can think of any.
Thanks,
there is a dutch project that was entirely constructed of laminated layers of structural glass -- a house -- the name and architect escape me, though, so sorry that i'm not much help...
It's "The Glass House" by Kruunenberg en Van der Erve Architecten:
dutch text with images of unfinished project
tack så mycket
thats a good one....what else?
thanks
Varsagod ochona. Hur visste du att jag ocksa pratar svenska?
Anyway, there are some classics:
H&deM art pavillion in Munich and the Eberswalde library
Norman Foster's Willis Faber & Dumas office
von Gerkan Marg and Partners Volkenroda pavillion
Wiel Aret's police station in Cuijk
and the glass in the new Porto Casa de Musica, OMA:
archined
or Dirk Jan Postel's pavillion:
archined, too
maybe some books by Andrea Compagno would help? (Although they are quite technical)
Moneo's Kursaal Auditorium in San Sebastian (Donosti), Euskadi, near Bilbao...:
check out also the site from where this pic comes from:
www.dupont.com/safetyglass/
THat project from Moneo is spectacular, I especially like the light quality on the interior and the contrast between the glass sken and wood finishes of the interior
Le Temple de l'amour" (Temple of Love) by Dirk Jan Postel
Arch Record
DuPont
sorry, didnt see your post a-f
kunsthaus bregenz......zumthor
you may want to check this issue from the spanish magazine tectonica.
detail is nice, don't like the bigger picture
Rafael Moneo - KURSAAL CULTURE CENTER
I think he loved those glass blocks...
my wife and i are learning swedish for fun and profit -- i was impressed with myself when i learned how to type in swedish
Webler & Geissler's Gotz HQ in Würzburg: Shades of Green.. pretty interesting:
Wiel Arets' University Library in Utrecht has an interesting design of screen printed glass with an organic pattern (branches or trees).. though I read somewhere that it seems the users are not quite happy with the results... (the light filtered through the patterns makes it difficult to concentrate or something like that)
http://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/architecture/arets_ubu.html
http://www.archined.nl/oem/reportages/ubu/ubu.html
Herzog & De Meuron rehabilitation of the SUVA building (Basel) has a skin with three different kinds of glass:
Francis Soler' dwellings in Paris has some more screen printed glass:
www.architektur-online.com/archiv/Heft0202/thema6.html
Nalbach+Nalbach's Café Bravo in Berlin is an interesting exepriment with reflecting glass, displaying different levels of transparency depending on the angle of the viewer and the weather and daylight:
check out also projects with special double glass like Matthias Loebermann' experimental building in Nürnberg: http://www.byak.de/architektouren2004/81.html , or Fink & Jocher center in Ingolstadt (Germany): http://www.fink-jocher.de/frame%20Prj%20Ingolstadt.html .. also Design Antenna's Glass Museum in Kingswinford (UK): http://www.dupont.com/safetyglass/lgn/stories/0301.html
and last but not least, Pierre Chareau's La Maison de Verre.. a classick:
http://www.ugr.es/~jfg/casas/chareau/catalogo.htm
we're not doing somebody's homework, are we?
I don't know.. and I don't care... :) .. ¡t's always a pleasure to review some projects...
look at James Carpenter's work
no homework, just interested in different precedents involving inovative uses for glass skins....besides thats what forums are for! :)
Bruno Taut, Glass Pavilion, Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne, Germany, 1914.
gigon_guyer's kunsthaus winterthur is subtly wicked.
jean nouvel's fondation cartier in paris or l'institut du monde arab
yes i was also thinking of the foundation cartier by nouvel..wonder why no one thought of it before
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