Glass

=The use of glass in Architecture in Caracas= Paragraph 3



Glass is a beautiful and versatile material which we see and use daily. In Caracas, a warm and tropical city, its use can be good or terrible. The commonest is to use it in windows that people open in the day for letting air through and close at night to maintain a comfortable temperature. In commercial centers like Sambil glass becomes part of the roofing, creating beautiful internal squares protected from rain, but opened to daylight. However, some buildings created following the flows of international fashion, like Cubo Negro or Parque Cristal, show closed facades made entirely of glass, which turn the inside building an oven and reflect solar radiation over the plants and the people of the surroundings. That shouldn’t be like that. In the moment of designing a building we got to think of the environment and the context, and give glass proper roles for every situation.



= = =Oral Presentation: Glass=