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What is Architectural Glasses

Glass building material used in an architectural way. Building envelope material, including windows, in glass exterior walls most typically used as a transparent. When used in buildings, glass often belongs to the safety type reinforced, toughened, and laminated glasses are also included.

While glass carries natural light into buildings, it saves energy with its solar control and heat insulation properties, and contributes to noise and security control.

Architectural glass is a project that is also sensitive to the environment. Öznur Cam is a company that is sensitive to the environment as it is to every other issue. The use of glass in architecture is a transition in terms of development and shows the point where today’s architecture has come.

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What are the Architectural Glass Types?

In order to reduce heat transfer, two or three window glasses are separated from each other by vacuum or gas-filled spaces and combined as a single glass system, the system that emerges is called Isıcam.

Insulating glass units are produced by assembling more than one glass plate to form a single system. The number of glass plates used in insulating glass systems today is up to three plates with the effect of increasing energy costs.

The panels used in insulating glass systems are separated from each other by laths. Inside each separated section is stationary air or gas. These joined glasses are mounted on wider window profiles in order to tolerate the glass thicknesses.

In addition to increased sound insulation, insulating glass products also provide an ideal energy saving advantage. The sealed area between the two glasses acts as a secondary insulating agent. Increased thermal resistance reduces the amount of heat lost in winter, keeping your home warmer.

Insulating glass has the opposite effect of preventing unwanted heat from entering the house in summer. This additional insulation significantly reduces the need for the use of air conditioners and heaters, minimizing your energy costs.

When standing near windows, air currents caused by insulation weakness are easily felt. However, when it comes to the use of insulating glass, unwanted temperature currents are prevented, while the glass in the interior remains at a temperature close to the room temperature.

Double glazing can reduce fogging and prevent unhealthy formations that may occur on the joinery.

The insulated double glazing is effective in reducing medium and high frequency noise such as human voice. The difference in inner and outer glass thicknesses provides a much more effective sound insulation. Although double glazed windows are safer than single glazed conventional windows, the use of tempered and laminated glasses should be preferred to provide even higher security.

Reflective glass is obtained by applying a metallic coating to the surface of ordinary float glass to reduce solar heat. This special metallic coating also creates a mirror effect, preventing the interior from being seen. It is generally used on building exteriors.

Reflective glasses are produced in two different production methods as Pyrolytic (Online) and Vacuum (Offline).

Tinted glass is an important architectural instrument for decorative use in exterior aesthetics of buildings. The coating on the glass reduces the heat and light intensity transferred to the interior.

It is essentially traditional clear flat glass, produced in the same way that flat glass is produced. The most important difference is the inclusion of molten colorants added at the beginning of the process to give coloring and heat emission absorption properties. Different colored glasses can be produced with different additives.

Enamel painted glass is tempered or heat-treated glass that is partially or completely coated on one side with mineral pigments.

In addition to its decorative feature, it also provides solar light control. Enameled glass is used as coating glass on exteriors and roofs and for cladding purposes. It can be combined with laminated glasses and insulating glasses. Tinted building glass is a heavy glass plate that offers many color options. It is used in facade applications of buildings, as interior glass, partition and desktop glass.

Low-E, which is briefly described as Low-E, means ‘Low Emission’. Low-E briefly refers to the ability of the glass surface to reflect heat.

The Low-E coating is very thin and cannot be seen with the naked eye. It is obtained by coating the glass surface with a metal or metal oxide layer. Low-e coated glass, on the one hand, reflects infrared energy, which emits heat and light, and keeps the heat on the facade where it occurs, on the other hand, it allows the passage of light.

In other words, the coating on the glass keeps the ‘U Factor’ value of the window down by blocking the infrared rays from staying on the warm side and passing to the cold side. The heat loss values ​​of the windows are expressed with the ‘U Factor’. The lower the ‘U Factor’, the higher the window’s resistance to heat flow.

The use of Low-E glass significantly increases the efficiency of the windows by ensuring that the heat generated inside is reflected back from the window in the winter months and the infrared heat emission from the sun stays outside in the summer months and keeps the interior cool.

Although it is 15% more expensive than traditional windows, it reduces glass-induced energy loss by up to 50%.

Annealed glass is not subject to internal structural stresses caused by heat treatments such as rapid cooling, strengthening or heat hardening.

Tempered glass, also known as toughened glass, is a variation of safety glass. It is subjected to heat and chemical processes to provide higher strength compared to normal glass.

When broken, they disperse not as large pieces, but as partial fractures that give the appearance of small-grained ice particles. These scattering fragments are expected to pose a comparatively less risk of injury than flat glass shattered in one piece.

As a result of its safety and high resistance, it has a wide range of applications such as automobile side windows, exterior glass, sliding doors, building entrances, bathroom and shower door windows, architectural glass doors and tables, glass shelves of refrigerators, telephone glasses, bulletproof glass and components of diving masks. find a place for themselves in the range of uses.

It is the name given to the glass obtained as a result of combining two or more glass plates using PVB (Polyvinyl Butyral) through heat and pressure. PVB is a kind of resin used in areas that require special applications such as strong bonding, optical clarity, adhesion to many surfaces, durability and flexibility.

PVB, which is also a protective layer, is in a very flexible form and when combined with glass layers, it gains a completely transparent appearance. This polymer layer is quite durable. For this reason, even if the glass is broken, the breakage that occurs on any of the glass plates does not affect the other plate and keeps the broken pieces on it and prevents it from falling.

The main application area is safety and automobile glass.

The desired appearance is obtained by choosing various colors and thicknesses in the glass and intermediate layers. Laminated glass is also commonly known as ‘Safety Glass’. In addition to this feature, it also provides sound insulation. Higher strength is achieved by applying tempering process to laminated glasses.

They can be used in all areas that require high security and protection such as shop windows, building facades, glass floors and glass stairs.