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VISION 52 – BLOOMFIELD HOUSE ASCOT VALE
What sort of glass do you most commonly select?
Low E glass or double-glazed Low E. Double-glazed
Low E has both benefits – double-glazing with the
air pocket and also the outer sheet is also an energy
efficient glass. So it offers twice the benefits.
It’s interesting to reflect that Mies van der Rohe’s
astonishing Barcelona Pavilion (1929) is now 90 years
young and continues to provide a baseline for so many
exceptional houses and commercial projects. It really
became the exemplar for the environmental luxury
possible with slender steel, plate glass and stone.
Here you are still honouring his pioneering work.
Yes absolutely. And look, works like that are inspirational
to us in the execution of details, the consideration of
joints throughout, between the floor material to the
glazing and to the roof surface.
Raffoul’s regard for the
best modernist traditions
sees materials utilised to
full effect – concrete for
privacy and thermal
massing, glass for a crystal
cave effect of spatial and
visual connections.
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