Structural Glass Roof Detail

Practicalities of walk on glass floors and rooflights.

Structural glass roof detail.

Structural glass floors are not only stunning from a design perspective but also fulfil an important practical purpose allowing light to permeate a structure. The beauty of structural glass is its ability to create completely frameless glass installations without the limitations you would incur with other systems. These files are formatted for use with autocad 2000. Structural glass roofs will generally need some type of structural support.

It is assembled from similar components to that of a captured system with the exception of an exterior aluminum pressure plate and cap with gaskets to hold the glass in place. Point supported handrail systems. Have afforded paragon the opportunity to work with the world s premiere architects and glazing professionals. Low iron glass beams can give a great completely transparent horizontal element to a space with frameless detailing at the edges to hide all brackets and fixings to the structural glass beam.

A more recent example is the beijing poly plaza building where a glass wall 90m high by 60m wide designed by skidmore owings and merrill is supported by an orthogonal cable net with stainless steel cables. This detail is used greatly on glass box extensions. Standard glass roof light cad drawing references for flat roofs flush box sliding smoke vent and access roof lights. A structural glass floor for instance will be designed to withstand a walk on load across its surface whereas.

Invisio is the uk s only thermally broken structural glazing system. Technical detail cad drawings to assist in integrating the typical details of our system into a specific application we have made a selection of cad files available for immediate download. Glass swimming pool features. For a different.

As a single source supplier paragon offers turn key structural glass systems. We regularly design and install glass walk on floors and bridges along with structural glass roof lights for precisely this purpose. The team at iq have developed a unique structural glass fixing system. Further details of this building are provided in the institution of structural engineers guide structural use of glass in buildings.