Glass Facade High Rise Building Video

Structural glazing for high-rise building architecture is a culmination of several factors:

Aesthetics

Signature designs

Flexibility

Robustness

Glass has a multitude of benefits for high-rise structures, the chief advantages being structural, utility, and maintenance. Also, glass is the preferred choice of material because of its superiority in terms of attributes like: visual appeal, lightness, installation, customization.

Glass provides several advantages in structural glazing:

1. Blending of interiors with exteriors

Conventionally used wall enclosures create a: restricted vision or view, closed environment, sense of claustrophobia.

Whereas, a glass façade provides an: unrestricted relaxed view, unhindered by building shape, improved productivity levels of the occupants by 10-15%, lighter building material.

This is what a quick comparison of several building materials reveals:

Brick: Wall Density: 2000Kg/m3; Thickness: 220mm; Weight/Square meter: 440 Kg/m2

Glass: Density : 2.51 g/c3; Thickness : 12mm; Weight/Square meter : 440 Kg/m2

(Taking into account a double glazed unit 6mm outer glass - 12mm air gap - 6mm inner glass) Weight/Square meter : 30kg/m2. So, considering a typical high-rise building that is 50 stories high with 40,000m2 glass area:

Estimated weight reduction : 16,400 Tons

When it comes to installation, following are the advantages of a glass façade over a concrete one:

2. Quicker fabrication and installation: A glass façade can cover 150 m2as compared with a brick wall that covers 70 m2, in a single day’s installation. Dry construction while using glass, which implies a cleaner project site.

3. Flexible building material:

Customization: an architect's actor, glass can be processed into whatever shape the design demands

Value-adding material: glass demonstrates a vast potential of value addition that is possible on the façade

Seismic performance: predictable seismic behavior can be achieved by the use of glass in high-rise structures

Lower envelope thickness: glass saves up to 8% of the construction area, and in turn increases carpet area, which is a key factor for high-rise buildings

Aesthetics: modern day glass is available in extensive colors and diverse styles and textures