What Is Part O and Will It Stop Me Having Big South-Facing Windows? A large south-facing window can shape the whole experience of a home. It can draw the garden into a living space, bring winter sunlight deep into the plan and give an ordinary room a remarkable outlook. The concern is whether those same […]
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1. First, separate three kinds of change A new rule, a document published for future use and a proposal under consultation can all appear in the same year’s headlines. They do not have the same effect on a project. In glazing, confusing them can lead a homeowner to believe an existing window must be replaced […]
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The First Warning Is Usually Visual The first sign that a glazing decision was wrong is often not a technical failure. It is a feeling that something in the room or elevation is visually heavier, busier or less balanced than expected. Frames that looked refined in a sample can appear more dominant once repeated across […]
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Sep
Sep
Glass Is Not the Architecture — It Serves the Architecture Large areas of glass have become closely associated with contemporary residential architecture. It is easy to understand why. Glazing can bring daylight deep into a home, create a stronger relationship with the landscape and give rooms a sense of openness that would be difficult to […]
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First Decide What You Are Actually Trying to Shade When a glazed room becomes uncomfortable, the instinctive response is often: “We need some shading.” But that is not yet a complete design brief. Before choosing blinds, screens, overhangs or a different glass specification, establish exactly what problem the shading is supposed to solve. There are […]
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Why Replacing Walls With Glass Changes the Room Completely A glass wall may visually disappear, but environmentally it behaves very differently from the insulated wall it replaces. That distinction becomes increasingly important as the amount of glazing grows. An opaque external wall is primarily designed to separate the internal environment from external conditions. Architectural glazing […]
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The Fundamental Difference: Direct Sun Versus Diffuse Daylight North- and south-facing windows can use exactly the same glass and still create very different conditions inside a home. The reason begins with the path of the sun. In the UK, the sun travels predominantly across the southern part of the sky. A south-facing elevation therefore has […]
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Aug
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North, South, East and West: What Actually Changes? The direction a window faces changes when sunlight reaches it, the angle at which that sunlight arrives and how solar exposure varies throughout the day. That means two identical panes of glass on different elevations can create very different conditions inside the same home. South-facing glazing can […]
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What Solar Control Glass Actually Does Solar control glass is designed to reduce the amount of solar energy passing through the glazing and contributing to heat inside the building. That becomes particularly relevant where architecture uses large areas of glass to bring in daylight, open up views and create a stronger connection with the landscape. […]
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Bigger Glass Is Not Automatically Better Architecture Walk through the pages of an architectural magazine or scroll through social media and it is easy to conclude that bigger glazing is always better. Entire walls of glass, dramatic sliding doors and uninterrupted floor-to-ceiling elevations have become visual symbols of luxury home design. While these projects can […]