A new visual tool from Guardian helps architects properly evaluate how different glass will truly look once installed on a project. The Guardian SunGuard "Build With Light" trade show exhibit is now portable on the "Build With Light" travelling glass studio. Guardian's SunGuard Build With Light glass studio allows architects to evaluate SunGuard advanced architectural glass under different light conditions. The studio simulates natural daylight & shows how the appearance of glass changes when viewed in transmitted & reflected light. The Build With Light studio has been very well received. "The studio gives you a very good sense of what the glass would look like in place. In our office, windows are tinted, so we have a disadvantage. It's a great asset because we had nothing before but to hold it up to the light," said G Schuler, BSA Lifestructures Architects & Eng. As architects, we hold glass up to light to see the quality of light that transmits through it, but we forget that reflectance comes off the glass on the exterior. The glass studio is a very good tool for architects to see a realistic representation of what glazing will look like from an exterior point of view. We can also put other framing materials - either curtainwalls or storefront frames - next to the glass so we can see all the colours on the outside of the building, said Tom Ning, graduate architect, Schmidt Associates. The travelling studio also demonstrates how light changes the appearance of coated products and how this should be taken into consideration in the design process. To learn more about Guardian SunGuard or to schedule a Build With Light demonstration, go to www.sunguardglass.com.
