Glass, folded: the facade that cools itself
Glass buildings are notorious for overheating. A new generation of facades is folded, angled and shaded to stay cool.
Cover image Photo by Julia Taubitz / Unsplash
For decades, the glass tower was a promise of light and a problem of heat. Flat glass lets the sun in and traps it, and air conditioning does the rest.
The newest facades are folded. Each panel is angled to block the high summer sun and welcome the low winter light, and the geometry does work that machines used to do.
The result is a building that looks more complicated and works more simply.
