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Company Name | Archtiectural Glass Artworks Ltd |
Company Address | 1 Chamberlain Street London NW1 8XB United Kingdom Map It |
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Name | Andrew Moor |
Job Title | MD |
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Phone | 07702514796 |
Role of this organisation in the project being entered | Creator |
Category - Exterior |
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Project/Product Name (written how it should appear) | Hornsby House School |
Project Address | Hearndale Road London SW12 8RS United Kingdom Map It |
Client Name | Hornsby House School |
Designer/Architect Name | Andrew Moor |
Contractor Name | Simon Cook |
Project/Product Description | We designed, manufactured and installed a 72sqm retaining wall for an external lightwell. The School was building a basement classroom - to provide new space - and the architect, to bring daylight into the room, created an external stairwell. We were asked to design and install this glass art feature. A big advantage of using glass in this context is it will need almost no maintenance over many years. Perhaps, a hosing down once a year. Adding the artwork to the glass brings both light and life into the classroom. The additional cost of adding in the image to the glass was relatively small. |
Materials Used | The design has been printed digitally onto a film and supplied to site as a laminated glass. The top layer has been made thicker to allow the for 1.5m high cantilevered balustrade. |
Sustainability | Laminated glass 3.08 kg |
Issues Faced | The main issue was to engineer the project so the glass was simple to install, yet was able to support the tall balustrade. The artwork adde inside the laminate, ensuring that the image was visible without any backlighting required. |
Additional Comments | This is such a simple but effective way of giving basement areas a much more sustainable and maintenance free appearance. These areas often look quite dark and even if the image was plain white it is a better and more reliable way of bring light into light wells. |
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