Trendy with Glass Walls
Eksterior August 30th, 2010
YOU would never see a transparent house because almost all the walls were made of glass. However, make no mistake, such a house could not be called a glass house.
What is meant glass house is the house that was made of glass, but not to be used as a dwelling house. Glass houses are usually used as a place to crop cultivation. While a house with glass architecture glass is usually used as basic materials almost as big as 70-80 percent.
In the past, places that have limited the construction of buildings made of glass in buildings and skyscrapers alone. However, the trend seems to use the glass had been “dropped” into the world of residential property. Today, glass has become the core structure and design elements for residential lots.
The use of glass, in terms of lighting, is very useful because it helps bring light to direct sunlight into the house, certainly during the daytime. According to the architect of Marina L, the glass can make a house look more spacious than the original.
“Home stay that use glass in most of the building to bring natural flow from the outside in and vice versa thus providing peace and quiet nuances,” he said.
The use of glass as building materials are less expensive than if you use concrete as the main wall of the house. “Glass can be recycled. So besides cheap, also very friendly environment,” said Marina.
The increased use of glass as a material basis-line home construction along with increased production and glass technology itself. At first people hesitated to use glass as a base for construction of houses as it seemed prone to rupture. However, with increasing technological sophistication, the glass in modern times such as these can be made more powerful, more secure, and efficient energy.
“Once the glass in the windows only to the extent of housing as a place and out of air and light. Now its use has been enabled as well as exterior interior architectural elements,” said Marina.
Glass as the exterior architectural elements, among others, applied to the facades of buildings, roofs, skywalks, entrances, revolving door, canopy, winter garden and glass house crop cultivation. All that allows sunlight to enter freely. Exterior appearance became more unique look. While for the interior, the glass used on stairs, hall walking, and the wall.
“There lho house all glass walls. But there are also combined with concrete walls,” said Marina.
The use of glass as a base for many of the buildings should compromise with the other aspects. Suppose condition for coolness and heat. Often happens in a greenhouse architecture is reversed effects, such as heat in winter and cool in summer.
Luckily there been progress in glass-making industry that also offer benefits to us. One example is the spectrum of glass with selective quality of the stream of light into the home without endangering or result in the loss of these residents as well as other home contents.
Well, whether you are now getting interested own a house with glass architecture? Your home might be satusatunya home with such a model that showed the most unique among the other houses in your neighborhood.






