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Full-height double-glazed Viridian
doors and windows help distil
the quintessential indoor/outdoor
lifestyle of this season’s The Block.
What role do you give glass as part of your strategy
to create space, form and place of its time?
You’ll notice in this series of The Block we have an old
house, with louvre windows that are a transition zone to
a new contemporary build at the back. You’ll see in the
old houses, we are dealing with small rooms and
windows from a heritage point of view. We love the
character but let’s look at the transition and how we’re
transitioning to a new modern space and what that
space means for contemporary living. It’s visibility on
the outside and the visibility of outside being able to
look in, but also to be highly efficient in doing so. Glass
is helping us in that respect in this particular building
because we have a high shading coefficient in the glass
and we have very little heat loss. These are critical things
for Melbourne, critical things to consider in any building
project and critical things to ask of any building material
and glass can deliver, Viridian can deliver.
How does glass add to the ‘wow’ factor?
There’s a real trend in contemporary architecture
towards indoor and outdoor. We hear that so often,
but how do you achieve that on the ground? Well, glass
is a great leveler in that you can easily see the indoors
and outdoors and vice versa. That’s a given but the
technology and how to achieve that and do that correctly
so that you’re not compromising the performance of
your building… these are critical things. Glass is helping
us from a sustainability angle and also a design angle and
these are critical things that interweave and go towards
creating a fantastic outcome.