Glass floors
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Product • By Saflex • Saflex Structural PVB interlayer
Saflex Structural PVB interlayer
Designed for extra strength in laminated glass
Providing superior structural capacity versus conventional PVB, Saflex® Structural interlayer is a PVB interlayer designed for applications where interlayer rigidity and high glass adhesion requirements for laminated glass are critical. In properly designed systems, Saflex Structural is capable of containing glass shards at high and low temperatures after impact and under load—even in open edge laminated glass.
Due to the strength and stiffness of the Saflex Structural interlayer, laminated glass can either sustain a higher uniform load for a given configuration or the glass thickness can be reduced while keeping the same load and area as compared to conventional laminat... More
Project • By Villanueva Architect • Housing
Church Loft dwelling The Netherlands
Churches in The Netherlands are getting more and more unoccupied.
In order to preserve a small church in the South of The Netherlands, this church is transformed to residential housing.
The length of the building is divided into 7 parts to accommodate 6 dwellings and 1 commercial office.
The new inhabitants where given the flexibility to change the presented base floor plans to their own wishes and demands. One of the dwellings is designed to create a loft-like living space. The challenge was to create an open continuous floor plan in the existing long and narrow three-level dwelling.
Closed sanitary blocks are carefully positioned in the open space, leaving functional rest spaces. A storage cabinet spans the who... More