There are already lot of glass structures, even facades made by glass bricks. However, the use of solid cast glass bricks glued with a transparent UV cured adhesive is first utilized in the facade of the Crystal House in P.C. Hooftstraat in Amsterdam. This book is an attempt of exploring the structural and thermal potentials of this new technology, by studying them in a bigger scale. It provides, firstly, important information about the material glass, its properties and the construction of the structural glass block wall. It follows the architecture of the exterior and interior and the...
There are already lot of glass structures, even facades made by glass bricks. However, the use of solid cast glass bricks glued with a transparent UV ...