Glass+and+Wood

= = = = || = = = = **Summarizing:** Glass is a hard, transparent and fragile material used in the construction and in the decoration. It's and inorganic product made of sand, soda ach and lime stone, and it's produced by fusing this materials at high temperatures, then cooling them quickly, forming a rigid structure, however not having enough time to form a crystalline regular structure.
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This product is known by it properties as a solid and hard material, a disordered and amorphous structure, it's fragile so it makes it easily to brake into sharp pieces it's transparent to visible light and is 100% recyclable and one of the safest packagin g materials due to its composition and properties.

In the ancient Rome was invented the blown one, technology that allowed the container’s production and window’s sheets. In the middle ages, it was to use for cathedral’s windows. At the end of XVIII century and in XIX century glass increased its use for the manufacture elements of good optical quality instruments, and also bottles, glasses and mirrors. In the century XX the manufacture’s technology by the floated on tin’s pools, this allowed to diminish the flat glass production’s price, its use being increased.

Glass in Venezuela
In Venezuela the use of Glass in architecture is wide ample. It’s usually used for enclosures and doors but also in the façade of many buildings. This unusual use for glass in Venezuela looks really good but it has a lot of ecological problems. This system is created for countries with a temperate weather like Japan, because of the reflective characteristic of glass which made the building a significant save of energy, in other words, it makes it warmer. But here in Venezuela isn't necessary this system because our tropical weather is already pretty warm and the use of this type of façade does not help to counteract the greenhouse effect. As we all know Caracas architecture is basically a “Copy & Paste” from other countries, which is really a failier of imagination. Here in Venezuela have our own needs, our own problems, we have culture enough to make a wide new architecture, then, why we keep coping?



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