GLASS IN

INTERIOR DESIGN

By HNG Floatglass

Uses For Glass In Interior

Design Often interior design is focused on seeking

emptiness. When we clean up the house we seek it

to be empty, of impurities, of what is unnecessary

and of what is superfluous.

Glass And Light

Glass is an element that helps us to achieve this goal of

creating an empty space. It’s transparency let’s light through,

giving us the feeling that a space it is empty and spacious,

transforming what could be a dark and gloomy interior. It’s the

optimal solution for room that receive too little light.

When It Comes To Interior

Design, Glass Has Many Uses. Glass Stairs made popular by architect Peter Brohlin’s for the iconic

Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York, have started to show up in

many a residence. An all-glass stair has treads (steps), a stringer

(diagonal support) and a rail of glass. While this stair is actually

cantilevered from a support (likely a piece of steel) hidden in the

wall, the stair is essentially all glass.

Because of its transparency, the staircase seems

to float, blocking neither light nor view. And in many

ways it becomes, with its lightness and

transparency, an ethereal, contemporary sculpture.

If natural light available from only two sides, glass

stairs are a perfect way to illuminate the interiors of

older row houses in historic neighbourhoods.

Glass Floors

Glass Floors are often used in conjunction with

glass stairs and mostly on upper floors of a house

were we seek to bring more light under it. It makes

most sense to use these under a sky lit roof.

Glass Walkways

Glass Walkways allows us to be enclosed yet open

to the view. When closed the walkway connects

two sides of the house, but it does so in dramatic

fashion. The cove lighting and subtle barrel-vaulted

wood ceiling are nice touches.

Glass Bathroom

Glass Bathrooms are controversial. Privacy becomes an

issue when the material you are trying to use is transparent.

There are today glass walls that can change its opacity in the

same way you turn a light on or off. With a flick of a switch

these transparent walls become completely white, blocking

most of the light that would come through

Glass Blocks

Glass Blocks are very versatile, they can be

used up as a solid wall a window or as

flooring

THANK YOU