http://www.glassguides.com/index.php/archives/169 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.glassguides.com/index.php/archives/169/comment-page-1#comment-5638 Looking Back | Architect's Guide to Glass Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:31:08 +0000 http://www.glassguides.com/?p=169#comment-5638 [...] For the Cathedral of Christ the Light project, architects at SOM worked extensively with glass to create the qualities of a lantern that would glow during the day from sunlight and in the evening from the light within. One unique feature of the cathedral is the Omega Wall, which re-images a 12th-century sculptural depiction of Christ from the façade of Chartres Cathedral in France. As Craig Hartman, project architect, explains, “The idea was to make this image, like that of the overall building, change as the quality of light changes. So it comes and goes; it really is like a veil, which sometimes, depending on the nature of the light, is very strong and vivid. That’s typically when the light is strong on the outside and less so on the inside. As you get more light, either through light coming off the ceiling and down on the surface of the image or as light becomes brighter on the inside moving toward evening … that begins to diminish in its intensity.” (CLICK HERE to read more about the project.) [...] [...] For the Cathedral of Christ the Light project, architects at SOM worked extensively with glass to create the qualities of a lantern that would glow during the day from sunlight and in the evening from the light within. One unique feature of the cathedral is the Omega Wall, which re-images a 12th-century sculptural depiction of Christ from the façade of Chartres Cathedral in France. As Craig Hartman, project architect, explains, “The idea was to make this image, like that of the overall building, change as the quality of light changes. So it comes and goes; it really is like a veil, which sometimes, depending on the nature of the light, is very strong and vivid. That’s typically when the light is strong on the outside and less so on the inside. As you get more light, either through light coming off the ceiling and down on the surface of the image or as light becomes brighter on the inside moving toward evening … that begins to diminish in its intensity.” (CLICK HERE to read more about the project.) [...]

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