Glass

Abstract

In architecture, glass established itself as an element that provided cohesion between the inside and the outside. Glass is a transparent structural material and one of the few building materials that combines tradition with technological innovation. Glass is a product that harmonises colour, reflectance, transparency or opacity, texture and thickness, flatness or curvature with, for example, some control over opacity or self-cleaning properties, whilst at the same time being low-emissive, heat and/or sound insulator, offers protection and security, as well as resistance to thermal shock and impact from projectiles. Moreover glass is the only material that is 100Â % recyclable, what we should bear in mind, as sustainable development is only possible by careful use of resources and technology. Glass is, definitively, a hard product to beat.