Glass bricks play an important role in modern architecture, characterized by open and lighted spaces with bright colors. Their shape and texture enriches the space, ensuring penetration of light, heat and sound insulation, safety and the required fire resistance. It also allows the isolation of areas that need to be sheltered and intimate but with a sufficient amount of natural light.
It is used for interior and exterior design and decorating, and thus can be placed in every room of an apartment or a house, in the treatment of building facades or landscaping.
It is used in the form of windows, flat glass walls, partition walls, fencing, partition panels, floor and ceiling surfaces, etc., which may be straight, oblique or curved in shape.
In residential areas it is being used for bathroom partitions, kitchen counters that are dividing the kitchen and the dining room, decorative windows, stairs and balcony railings.
They are often used in commercial and public buildings, schools, garages, workshops, technical rooms, etc.. They are excellent for maintenance and are as such recommended for areas that need to provide a high degree of purity such as sanitary facilities, swimming pools and wellness areas.
Possibilities of playing with glass bricks in the design and planning are limitless. In addition, glass bricks can really make a space special with curved or undulating walls, lighting effects that are achieved by combining different colors and shapes, or by integrating artificial lighting into glass brick panels. In addition to daylight, it uses natural light to create a particularly attractive ambience at night in the form of a luminous wall. Effective solutions for floor surfaces with the use of glass bricks are also unlimited and are used for interior and exterior decorating. Combination with artificial lighting can also generate special night effects.
To install glass brick elements it is advisable to hire a qualified company that will guarantee for the completed works.
Photo: Seves Glass block
