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BUILDING GLASS

“good vibes” to anyone ings everywhere within 10 port, Singapore. “Past lay- oped in our modern build-
who sees themselves in it. years. outs for the standard hotel ings. The global trend in
room have the bathroom using architectural glass
TINTED GLASS NOW YOU SEE ME, next to the entrance. With has been on the rise and
FOR AN AESTHETIC NOW YOU DON’T Gauzy glass, the architects there is no stopping it. Per-
EFFECT
The latest innovation in are able to design the bath- haps it is now time to con-
When clear vision is no glass must be switchable room at the far end of the sider how we can use glass
longer enough, different glass where the occupants entrance where the guest in other functional ways so
colored hues can be in- can decide whether they takes in the full view of that we can tap into the ad-
fused into common glass want the glass to be clear, the room together with the vantages it provides.
bringing colors to what opaque or anything in be- scenery outside. But they
we see. With modern pro- tween. PDLC (Polymer can also choose to have Gauzy Glass
www.gauzy.com
cesses like digital print on Dispersed Liquid Crystal) their bathroom privacy at
Saint Gobain
glass, a piece of mundane glass is made by laminating the push of a button. Many saint-gobain-glass.com
glass can be turned into sheets of PDLC films be- new layouts are being de- JTB Glass
an artistic masterpiece in tween two sheets of glass. signed with architects say- www.htglassbv.nl
a matter of minutes. Jes- Dan Schechter, VP Sales ing now they have the best Sisecam
www.sisecam.com/en
mond Khor, whose Topline of Gauzy Glass, an Israeli of both worlds with glass as
Topline Glass
Safety Glass factory in Ma- company which is at the the room partition”. www.toplineglass.com
laysia operates one of the forefront of this technol-
largest digital printing ma- ogy, spoke of their lat- It is amazing to see how
chines has seen an increase est project at the Crowne the use of simple glass has
in such orders over the Plaza Hotel at Changi Air- been expanded and devel- DirACT Glass
years from family portraits
to traditional church glass.
ENERGY SAVING
GLASS

While greenhouses seek to
keep more solar heat in, Tel: +65 9029 7204
E-mail: jason.sim@diractglass.com
other buildings try to keep
www.diractglass.com
the solar heat out during
summer and internal heat
in during the winter, thus
achieving energy conserva-
tion. The challenge is to let
light through while block-
ing heat transfer. This is
not be possible without the
nano-technology of depos-
iting silver oxide invisible
to the naked eye on the
glass surface, as this coat-
ing can reflect much of the
heat away. Baris Dogar of
Sisecam Turkey believes
that silver-coated Low-e
has been so widely used
that it will be the industry
standard for green build-

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