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The five-bedroom, 8.5-plus-bathroom is more than just a fancy face, and secrets flow throughout the interior of the home. Features, per the listing, include: “Semi-circular motif”
Glass curtain wall of Bauhaus Dessau, 1926. Historically, buildings were constructed of timber, masonry, or a combination of both. Their exterior walls were load-bearing, supporting much or all of the load of the entire structure. The nature of the materials resulted in inherent limits to a building's height and the maximum size of window openings.
Malator is an Earth house, built with an exterior glass wall facing Druidston Haven and looking out over St Brides Bay, Pembrokeshire. [1] It is sunk into the ground to have a minimal impact on the landscape. Inside, the building has an open-plan format in a style compared to that of a medieval hall.
The glass walls also hampered the ability to illuminate the interior at night and created bad acoustics. To solve the glare, heat and sound problems, the contractor lined the exterior of the glass walls with angled quatrefoils. They reduced the amount of heat and outside light entering the building and improved its acoustics.
The home is currently the most-expensive residence on the market in the gated community of Wexford and features unique craftsmanship, tile and glass work. Spectacular $4.89M SC home has 3 enormous ...
Back painted glass is any form of clear glass that is painted from the back side and viewed from the front side, or "first surface" side. Back painted glass is widely used for architectural spandrel glass, colored glass walls for interior glazing, colored glass back splashes, glass markerboards and dry erase boards, colored glass counter tops, shower walls, artistic glass, auto glass, marine ...
Shoji are valued for not setting a sharp barrier between the interior and the exterior; outside influences such as the swaying silhouettes of trees, or the chorus of frogs, can be appreciated from inside the house. [9] As exterior walls, shoji diffuse sunlight into the house; as interior partitions between rooms, they allow natural light deep ...
Glass walls and open interior space are the features that create an intense connection with the outdoor environment, while providing a framework reduces opaque exterior walls to a minimum. The careful site design and integration of the exterior environment represents a concerted effort to achieve an architecture wedded to its natural context.