Walk This Way: Glass Flooring and Stair Installations
When it comes to creating a “wow” aesthetic, glass flooring and stair applications are hard to beat. Glass combines aesthetics with natural light and transparency to create bright, open indoor and outdoor spaces. Here’s a look at just a few installations that caught our eye.
SkyLawn – Houston
Custom, jumbo, walkable skylights are scattered throughout the SkyLawn, an outdoor roof space in Houston. Glass Flooring Systems Inc. of Sparta, New Jersey, designed, engineered, and fabricated a mix of 40 custom circular walkable and non-walkable skylights for the outdoor roof space. The installation was a collaboration with architects OMA New York, Hoerr Schaudt landscape architecture, and Griesenbeck Architectural of Houston, which handled the installation.
Satinovo acid-etched glass from Saint-Gobain was also used in the non-walkable units, as well as the SentryGlas interlayers and Guardian SNX 62/27.
All of the glass was heat soak tested.
Walkable Skylight Units:
- 12-mm top layer constructed with low iron tempered LuxRaff Regular anti-slip texture from Sevasa;
- 1.52-mm SentryGlas interlayer from Kuraray;
- 12-mm middle layer of low iron tempered glass;
- 1.52-mm SentryGlas interlayer;
- 12-mm second middle layer of low iron tempered;
- 1.52-mm SentryGlas interlayer;
- 12-mm bottom layer of low iron tempered with backpainted border;
- 19-mm air spacer; 6-mm tempered laminated high performance Guardian SNX62/27;
- 1.52-mm DG Structural interlayer from Eastman; and
- 6-mm tempered clear lite.
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