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Optical Glass House Architect: Location: Year :
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Hiroshima, JAPAN 2012.10
Student:
Cansu Undeyoglu
Optical Glass House is located in the hear t of Hiroshima, surrounded by large buildings and looks out into a street with plenty of passing traffic and trams. On the street side of the house, the architect built a garden and an optical glass façade to create solitude and peaceful spaces in these busy surroundings. This 8.6m x 8.6m façade is the main component of the design. About 6,000 pure-glass blocks (50mm x 235mm x 50mm) were used to create it. Borosilicate, the primar y component of optical glass, was used to produce a ver y transparent glass. As a result of, the facade looks like a cascade cascading downward, dispersing light and bringing a crispness to the air, creating a sanctuar y atmosphere in the middle of city.
Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura
Axonometric Exterior View 1/200 Cansu Undeyoglu
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C Tatami room
Entrance
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Front Porch
Garden room Shoes room
Car room
WIC Hobby room
Bedroom
A Bathroom
Ground floor plan Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura
Ground Floor Plan 1/100 Cansu Undeyoglu
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B Water-basin skylight C Stock
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Living room Ivy room Dining room Iroha Momiji room A
First floor plan Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura
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Axonometric Exterior View 1/100 Cansu Undeyoglu
First Floor Plan 1/100 Cansu Undeyoglu
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C Children room
EV Children room
Laundry room
Olive room
Closet
MBR
Bathroom A
Second floor plan Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura
Form logic diagram Cansu Undeyoglu
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Second Floor Plan 1/100 Cansu Undeyoglu
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