Glass


 * Glass **//Glass architecture //

Glass is a material with properties like transparency and hardness althought is very fragil. It's a durability material too. Chemically it's compose by silicad sand, sodium carbonate and limestone. Glass like construction material works like windows and doors or facade material. It isn't function like structural material.

It's very cool the way that the expert can works with this material, changing the shapes of the glass. It's a very nice work but you need very much practice and expirience.

In Caracas, Venezuela, you can see vary good examples of glass like facade element. The architects play so much with this material to give more visual liberty from the inside of the building and more light. One example is the Sambil. This mall have a facade that the entrance was make with glass. Another example is the "Facultad De Arquitectura" in UCV that have a kind of door/windows in all the edification.

Sambil Mall