Glass floor
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Product • By Fluid Glass • Fluid Glass Floor
Fluid Glass Floor
The Fluid Glass Floor is a high-performance structural glazing system designed to introduce light, drama, and a contemporary dimension to any interior. By opening up vertical sightlines between levels, it creates a unique sense of openness and turns ordinary circulation spaces into architectural highlights. Engineered to meet rigorous safety and load-bearing standards, each floor is meticulously calculated using multi-layered laminated glass to ensure total durability. Whether used to showcase a feature cellar or simply to invite daylight deeper into a building, it offers a sophisticated, "weightless" aesthetic that integrates seamlessly with modern or heritage structures More
News • News • 15 Apr 2022
Raul Sanchez Architects strips slender house down to exposed brick facades and inserts modern interior
Raul Sanchez Architects stripped a 19th century property in a ruinous state, located in Barcelona’s Borne district, down to its facades, dividing walls and roof. What was left is a 15 meter high void revealing a composition of all kinds of bricks and stones arranged without apparent order or composition. Inside this void, Raul Sanchez Architects inserted a modern interior.
José Hevia
Three new floors are organized by a spiral staircase that runs the entire height of the property without touching its walls at any time. The stairs are painted white in search of a certain material abstraction. White lacquered wood ceilings further enhance this.
José Hevia
The floors are supported by beams that run between... More
News • News • 29 Oct 2020
MVRDV strips 19th-century Haussmann style building and adds a glass floor to reveal its internal beauty
MVRDV completed the new flagship store for French lingerie brand Etam, located on Boulevard Haussmann directly across from the Galeries Lafayette department store. Inspired by the lingerie on display the architects wanted to make the store both revealing and intimate.
Ossip van Duivenbode
MVRDV wanted to highlight the building’s clean classical appearance by stripping back the exterior as much as possible. The same approach was continued indoors by removing a part of the entresol floor and inserting a glass floor. The transparency reveals the original stone structure and allows natural light to flood the basement level.
Ossip van Duivenbode
The glass floor grants visitors to see products and people above or be... More
Product • By Thiele Glas • TG-STEP - BEGEHBARES GLAS / Walk-on glass
TG-STEP - BEGEHBARES GLAS / Walk-on glass
Transparent space design concepts are gaining increasing significance in modern architecture. Opaque structural components such as floors, stairs and ceilings are being completely or partially replaced with transparent glass surfaces that can be walked on.
Walk-on glass (TG-STEP) is made of laminated safety glass with at least three individual layers of float or extra-white glass, bound together using several highly tearproof PVB films. In addition, the glass can be decorated with various colours, effects or prints. The use of walk-on glass requires planning permission on a case-by-case basis.
Coating using screen printing or satin finishing, such as TG-LuxRaff® Stone (R10), MADRAS® Pixel Flooring (R11) or full-surface anti-... More
Project • By Whipple Russell Architects • Private Houses
Laurel Way
William MacCollum
One aesthetic idea driving the creation of Laurel Way was that each room or space should be a jewel box, an individually conceived, precisely functional and dramatic sensory experience with its own depth of architecture. Central to the composition are many of Marc Whipple’s signature elements, one being the use of texture; smooth next to rough stone, rich wooden panels against glass, and glass reflecting water.
The immediate experience upon entering the house is its inherent weightlessness – the sense that the walls appear to float as panels and you are always connected to the outdoors. This is achieved with adherence to precise symmetry of beams, support panels, tiles, and sightlines, and also th... More