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BLIC/ IVATE HOW DO WE EXPERIMENT GLASS IN OUR DAILY ENVIRONNEMENT? HOW DO WE DEEL WITH TRANSPARENCY IN OUR PRIVATE SPACE? HOW TRANSPARENCY CAN GIVE PRIVACY? THE GLASS IS IT A TRANSPARENT MATERIAL?IS IT A REAL BORDER BETWEEN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC? HOW GLASS IS USED IN PUBLIC BUILDING? WINDOWS AS A FRAME OF LIGHT? OR A FRAME OF DAILY LIFE? INSIDE/OUTSIDE WHERE IS THE PRIVATE SPACE?
TRANSPARENCY Philosophic definition «Material that is an exception to the impenetrability» la transparence comme « condition inapparente de tout apparaître » si l’acte perceptif consiste en la rencontre d’un objet visible et d’un sujet voyant (cf. Aristote, De anima), la rencontre ne peut se faire qu’à la condition d’un milieu intermédiaire transparent ou diaphane. La transparence n’est pas substantielle : elle ne désigne que la qualité d’un corps causée par la lumière, qui fait passer le diaphane d’être en puissance à être en act. La transparence n’est pas substantielle : elle ne désigne que la qualité d’un corps causée par la lumière, qui fait passer le diaphane d’être en puissance à être en acte. D’où la belle redéfinition de la transparence comme « condition inapparente de tout apparaître » (p. 19) : la différence ontologique entre les termes latins lux (source lumineuse) et lumens (rayonnement d’un milieu transparent) permet donc de faire apparaître que la lumière n’est pas ellemême vue, comme la transparence n’est pas par elle-même perçue. Ce qui rend visible (la transparence) n’est pas de l’ordre du visible. Cette signification de la transparence comprise comme condition transcendantale de la phénoménalité des choses sensibles autorise donc une redéfinition métaphorique de la vérité dans le sillage de la perspective heideggérienne : le vrai n’est plus de l’ordre de l’évidence métaphysique, d’une adéquation entre l’esprit et la chose ; la vérité est dévoilement (alètheia) de l’étant dans le voilement de l’être.
ARCHITECTURE AND TRANSPARENCY In optics, transparency refers to a material that transmits light so that we can see through it. It’s also used because of the fascination of making interior and exterior spaces continuous. «litteral transparency» ROwe and Slutzky What different notions and concepts of transparency can be distinguished within architecture? What are the properties and the capacities of transparency? Is transparency connecting?Transparency is often used too «connect» spaces. Most of the times, this connection is a visual connection between spaces, but prevents the spaces from being actually (spatially) connected. Mies van de Rohe described transparency as a means of making the architectural elements clear and perceivable. « The glass skin, the glass walls alone permit the skeleton structure its unambiguous constructive appearance and secure its architectonic possibilities. Now it becomes clear again what a wall is, what an opening, what is floor and what ceiling. Simplicity of construction, clarity of tectonic means, and purity of material reflect the luminosity of original beauty.» Literal transparency describes the material quality of being seethrough, and phenomenal transparency described the perceptual quality that allows the mind to discern the underlying governing concept or spatial concept.» Rowe and Slutzky
Hans Roest, these about Transparency in Architecture, student at the Faculty of architecture in TU Delft.
Arthur Korn, German architect
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coloured glass is it a good position to colour the city and inside offices and at the same time a protection against transparency?
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OUTSIDE/INSIDE TU Eindhoven, Vertigo , Falculty of Architecture
When the former Chemistry Laboratory was converted into the new accommodation for the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, its bare concrete skeleton was refurbished with a curtain façade that strikes a balance between massiveness and transparency. The smooth glass skin is a low-tech energy façade, and for that reason it is sealed for 70%. On the exterior, the glass has an enamel print of the scaffolding of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia – architecture’s symbol of the for-ever-unfinished project. architect: diederendirrix
Form the same building the green glass bring such a different coloured and quality of light inside .
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What I notice during my walk though the city: -In private houses and flat the windows with new technology are reflecting the surrounding during daily light/ the day. You can see trough during the night : the most private moment become the most visible and public for observers specially in Netherlands where big windows are often used.
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SEMI PRIVATE: A new way of privacy: the face is hidden so the body becomes anonymous. The windows are placed exactly where the people face is where they are sit down: privacy moment result of the position of the people in the room. identity: the face makes the identity and so the privacy Here the architecture take in account at which moment people need to be in private with the use of the windows on specific place.
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What is the function of this window near to each door in the staircase of the DAE? Do we need to see through before openning the door? Does it help us to know what is behind the door before to open it? Transparency as a prevention ? Or as a killer of surprise and discovery? Or is it still a mystery because we see only a slice of what is behind? Finally, the let more or
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In the public; nothing as to be hidden and building are totally build out of glass because of the light. Is also to show that there is nothing to hide. In individual houses, a part of privacy is broughted by the walls. A house completely in glass is a good concept but it doesn’t work: everybody need some walls against the curious observer during daily actions ( go to the bathroom, brushing teeth, have sex,...)
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Alice Bleton Man & Living 1st module 2013