glassblock
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Tailor made
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Maison Hermes, Tokyo / Japan
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Glass is the key
of everything.
The
transparency is
to create intimity
which lets the
light come in.
Renzo Piano
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6,000 m2 multi-use
building
•Very narrow plot
less than 12m
wide, 13 storeys
high
•15,000 glass
blocks used for
facade
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2 types of glass
blocks have been
designed:
1- extraordinarily
large glass block
(ever produced
before):
42,8x42,8x12 cm
•¼ of original
Hermes foulard
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2- One side
straigth and one
side curved:
24x21x12 cm
¼ of Hermes
special edition
block
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Special “wings”
create an edge that
protrudes more
than traditional
blocks and can
“conceal” the joints
between adjacent
blocks.
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As a result,
support
structures
“dissapear”
making surfaces
appear
extraordinaly
“light”.
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Furthermore,
special metalized
paint around the
borders!
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This gives the
walls a silver
reflection and
creates refined,
elegant and
unifrom
surfaces.
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Maison Hermes, Tokyo / Japan
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glassblock
Palacio Termal, Panticosa / Spain
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to create a
sensuous, and
watery form as a
language for the
architecture.
Belen Moneo &
Jeff Brock
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Like the shingles or
clapboards of
Northern European
or North American
façade construction
in wood, it would
protect itself from
the assault of strong
rains and snow that
frequently soak the
Panticosa site
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300
300
The Panticosa
Block was
designed as the
principal façade
material for the
Palacio Termal in
Panticosa, in the
Spanish Pyrenees
of Huesca, close to
the border with
France.
80
130
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it is not attenuated
but block-like, with
its 8.500 square
meter program
distributed on five
floors, with some
spaces reaching
interior heights of
11 meters.
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Trapezoidal
30x30x8/13 cm
Weigth: 7,5 Kg
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Installed with
tradional laying
method
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Palacio Termal, Panticosa / Spain
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Palacio Termal, Panticosa / Spain
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Palacio Termal, Panticosa / Spain
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