AN Glass Special Section - July/August 2017

GLASS 35 The latest glass innovations offer high performance and myriad aesthetic options, allowing for more ambitious projects than ever before.

From a record-breaking tower in Seoul, South Korea, to the historic restoration of Philip Johnson’s Glass House, discover the ways architects are pushing glass to new heights—plus, get to know the top products on the market that you can specify for your next project.

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Kazakhstan Pavilion

With a theme of “Future Energy,” Kazakhstan’s Expo 2017 is expected to draw more than 2 million tourists to Astana, the capital city. At the center of it all is the Kazakhstan Pavilion

by Chicago’s Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, capped with a glass dome 262 feet in diameter and housing the “Museum of Future Energy.”

The form was inspired by expos of the past, like the Montreal Biodome from Expo ’67, as well as Kazakhstan’s president himself, who specifically told the firm he wanted a sphere, said Founding Partner Gordon Gill.

But earlier examples failed to complete the circle—Gill’s team wanted to go further.

“We said, ‘If we’re going to do that, let’s do a true sphere,’” Gill said. “Instead of segmented glass, we decided to do double-curved, insulated, fritted glass.” While the form posed engineering challenges due to undefined transition of heat across its surface—which the team solved by using convection to move air throughout the space—fabricating the glass panels proved an engineering feat of its own.

“We thought it was going to be pretty straightforward,” Gill said. “After all, doesn’t every car have double-curved glass on the windshield? But we only found three manufacturers on the planet that could deliver doublecurved insulated glass.” Eventually choosing Italy’s Sunglass for the job, together they considered a number of designs, choosing to utilize a rhombus shape with horizontal members that could be rationalized with the floor line in installation.

To maximize views from inside and reduce the number of glass panels, they opted for a three-meter-sized lite for a total of about 2,900 double-curved spherical panels with an additional 315 double-curved panels to make up the side walls of the wind turbine inlet at the top of the sphere, and 388 flat panels with integrated photovoltaics from Ertex.

“There’s a lot of science behind this simplicity,” Gill said. “It seems so straightforward and almost like a one-liner, but it unfolds in front of you as you go through it to reveal a whole litany of sophistication.”

One of the structural bays with double-curved glass.

Exterior view showing photovoltaic panels on the top of the sphere.

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The Glass House Sculpture Gallery

Philip Johnson’s property in New Canaan, Connecticut, is synonymous with his iconic Glass House, but the Sculpture Gallery (1970) is worthy of pilgrimage itself. “This is still the single best room that I have ever designed,” Johnson said of the gallery in a 1991 interview for the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Incorporating the influence of Greek architecture, the Sculpture Gallery is an interplay of intersecting angles set within a sloped landscape, capped with a glass ceiling supported by tubular steel rafters that

cast dramatic shadows on the work inside.

As the years wore on, the original roof began to leak, damaging the lighting and heating systems and staining the building’s tubular steel skeleton. Restoration was needed, and as part of that effort, Ted Hathaway, a member of the Glass House Advisory Council and president of Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope (the most significant benefactor of the Glass House site since its opening in 2007), donated a new aluminum extrusion system and glass skylighting.

The restoration tackled numerous is-

sues, like bringing the skylight up to contemporary standards while respecting Johnson’s original intent. “The Sculpture Gallery is renowned for the shadow pattern that is produced on the interior of the building on sunny days,” Glass House Director Gregory Sages said. “The glass needed to be upgraded to a laminated product that meets current building code. Maintaining the height and width of the extrusions was essential to replicating the shadow pattern Johnson created.”

The factory that created the original glass is no longer in operation, so Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope utilized glass provided

by PPG to develop a modern replacement, landing on a 9/16-inch laminated safety glass with quarter-inch Solarcool Gray #2 outboard lite, a clear polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayer, and quarter-inch clear inboard lite. “We were able to find an exact match that is reflective from the outside

and transparent from the inside,” Sages said. Though the original aluminum could support the new glass, Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope’s BMS-3000 skylight system with stepped-and-overlapped guttering was utilized to prevent further leakage.

Matching the original lighting proved a challenge of its own. The team experimented with energy-efficient LED lighting, but was disappointed by the effects. They found the solution with the original supplier, National Cathode Corporation, which produced tubes matching the original output volume and color temperature—meaning the restored building will match the original whether the lights are on or off.

The success of the project was underscored when original project architect Horst Hahn visited the site and gave it his stamp of approval. Now, just as Johnson put it in that 1991 interview, “the roof then becomes a substitute for the heavens.”

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The Lotte World Tower rises from bustling Seoul, South Korea, as a sleek new city icon.

For the team behind the 123-story building at global architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), creating this seamless silhouette meant a challenge of engineering ingenuity— and quite a bit of glass.

“Even though it looks like one big monolithic tower, there are 20 different types of glass on that tower,” explained KPF’s Richard Nemeth, managing principal for the project, which opened earlier this year. The 1,821-foottall silhouette was inspired by traditional Ko-

rean forms like pottery and paintbrushes, but its multiple functions helped dictate the form as well. Office space is located at the bottom, while the tower tapers in two directions— “think football instead of baseball”—offering smaller spans from core to glass toward the top of the tower, where the residences, hotel, and observation deck are located.

At the base, a 100-foot-tall lobby utilizes a gradient of mirrored frits on the glazing to provide shading while accommodating views at ground level; at the top of the tower, frits were used to highlight the diagrid

of the belt trusses. The residences utilize laminated safety glass on the inner lite with heat-strengthened glass on the outer lite, while the hotel and office sections use heatstrengthened glass for both. To keep the building from looking like a “giant patchwork quilt,” Nemeth said, the KPF team ensured that the outer lite is always the same thickness, with the reflective coating on the number-two surface. “Then, whatever you do on your inner lite is much less visible to the outside, because it’s inside the reflective coating,” he explained.

While the world’s fifth-tallest building includes a number of innovative energy-saving strategies, for many visitors the tower’s crowning achievement is the glass-floored observation deck—the world’s tallest. Cantilevering out, it offers views some 1,600 feet down—with just three layers of 10-millimeterthick tempered glass with ESG SentryGlas Plus interlayers separating viewers from the ground.

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More than a century after Clara Driscoll designed the first stained-glass lamps for Louis Comfort Tiffany, The New-York Historical Society’s Tiffany Lamp Gallery is home to another innovation in glass—one completely of this century.

As part of a renovation of the museum’s fourth-floor galleries, London-based architect Eva Jiricna created a transparent-glass floating staircase that links two floors in the dimly lit gallery of one hundred antique lamps.

“It gives you an introduction to what glass means to us now,” Jiricna said. Her creation takes glass technology to its limits, utilizing minimal metal components and a suspended system of transparent fins with branchlike glass supports to hold the sandblasted treads. “We not only made it in glass, but we also lit the staircase through the glass [with LEDs] so it actually glows,” the architect explained.

Jiricna initially made the first glass staircases in the 1980s as a way to bring light— and customers—into dim basement retail spaces. Those earlier experimentations required Plexiglas supports, but advances in laminated glass have made it possible to create designs nearly completely from glass. For this project, she worked with a fabricator in Newcastle, England, to construct components that could be easily transported by container—keeping in mind that pieces too big to fit in the museum elevator would have to be carried by hand.

Once in New York, it took only two days to hang the staircase and two weeks to complete its installation.

“It’s always challenging to stretch technology to its limits,” Jiricna said, imagining a future with even sleeker designs to come.

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ISOMAX SEDAK The German glass manufacturer’s new isomax line allows architects to create glass facades with minimal thermal loss thanks to the introduction of vacuum insulation panels in the cavity. The glass can reach insulation levels of a solid wall without increasing the thickness of the unit—something the sedak product manager calls a “quantum leap in insulation technology.” sedak.com

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When night falls on the University of Iowa’s campus, the new Arts Building by Steven Holl Architects glows like a lantern, drawing students through a series of carefully organized social spaces. By day, these same light wells do the inverse, drawing sunlight into the artist studios so that electric light isn’t always required.

For a team from Steven Holl Architects led by Senior Partner Chris McVoy, it’s the latest in a decades-long investigation of glass as both a structural component and a conduit of light.

“We’ve been at the forefront of this material for 20 years—we know it extremely well,” McVoy said, explaining how the firm has developed the panelglass technique with Bendheim Glass, beginning with Helsinki’s Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in 1998 through projects including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 2007, transforming a once-industrial material into one with exciting architectural applications.

For the Iowa project, which together with an earlier building by the firm forms what McVoy calls an “arts meadow of public and studio spaces,” the team used Bendheim’s Rough Cast Channel Glass with reduced iron, an economical option that creates the glass’s soft green hue, complementing the greengray Rheinzink cladding on the concrete structure. A perforated bead-blasted stainless-steel screen further softens the building, creating an almost abstract, sculptural appearance.

The panel glass is used to form seven light wells that cut into a layered geometric form—the largest creating a central space capped with a skylight called the Forum—creating a soft shoji screen–like materiality. “The great thing about glass plank is that it’s structural,” McVoy said, meaning that the planks can stretch from floor to ceiling without intermediate mullions. The glass plank is formed into channels which are interlocked to create insulation, with Wacotech fibrous thermal insulation used to fill the cavities, allowing for the building’s fluid forms and enhancing its ethereal glow.

“The [glass] planks being the standard 10-inch width allows us to create organic curving geometry very easily and economically,” McVoy explained. “What happens is that light becomes the primary material—the glass just becomes a medium for light.”

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MAZE GALAXY GLASS & STONE Featuring textured metallic interlayers suspended in glass, Galaxy Glass & Stone’s Maze collection (and the coordinating Waves line) is available in a variety of thicknesses from 3/8 inch to 1 inch. Beyond their dynamic design, the tiles offer sound reduction thanks to the embedded acoustical interlayer. galaxycustom.com

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