Glass and Transparency
Over our nineteen years as a chartered RIBA architectural practice we have developed a number of areas of expertise that have come to characterize our work. Last week we reviewed our green roof projects. This week we have been show casing the use of Glass and Transparency which characterises our work.
The creation of light filled contemporary spaces owes much to the creative use of glass in many forms. Below we review a number of projects where this has been particularly successful.
Our early projects included a range of Fulham basement and whole house conversions. There were very successful and formed the basis for a large portfolio of some seventeen such basement projects in Fulham and many more throughout London.
All featured the use of glass in a variety of ways and each basement is a contemporary and light filled space. Several included glass cubes, such as at our Hurlingham Road project where circulation between the ground floor and basement is via a stair within the glass cube which serves to flood the interior with daylight.
Such glass features are often supported by a series of smaller elements of glazing such as structural glass panels set within a floor. These help bring natural light into a space and provide glimpses and views.
Our portfolio of projects includes many roof terraces and the access to these terraces provide an opportunity for the creative use of glass that floods the stair and space below with light. Several of our roof terrace projects have used a cube with one glass section sliding over another such as at Adam and Eve Mews in Kensington and Norfolk Road in Brighton.
Roof lights are used throughout our work and serve to bring daylight into a room, provide views out and very often help in creating an interesting roof scape when combined with green sedum roofs or brown rubble roofs.
The detailing of glazing is very important. We often use a thinner glass frame and this adds a feeling of contemporary elegance. Equally glass to glass frameless detailing works very well in a contemporary setting such as at our Rugby Road project.
