Lesson 4.1.4a and 4.1.4b
Window Types, Glass and Glazing Selection
4.1.4a Window Types
This Lesson will present an overview of the range of design considerations around the broad topic of a “window”. What makes a window? How does a designer consider the design and performance characteristics of a window from the interior as well as from the exterior? The lesson will present a range of options for window typologies, framing systems and integration into façade material systems and wall section development.
Follow this link to a pdf version of Lesson 4.1.4a.
Follow this link to a pdf resource on Steel Window Frame systems.
4.1.4b Glass + Glazing Selection
This Lesson will present an overview of the multitude of glazing options available to the architect. It will introduce you to the range of aesthetic and performance criteria to empower you to make informed selections of glazing and understand how to coordinate these with your facade framing systems in “punched opening”, window wall and curtain wall applications.
We will review glazing manufacturing sites to review how glass options are organized by their visual and performance characteristics.
The lesson will also highlight recent developments in fire-rated glass systems which are already proving to be some of the most exciting developments in architectural space design and performance.