Wood+and+Glass

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= **Glass** =



= = Glass is a great construction material and beautiful too, it has some characteristics to take into consideration when you are thinking about using it, some of these aspects are the transparency, fragility, reflection and that glass permits the entry of sunlight.

Caracas is a tropical city so the material construction must adapt to this aspect. Here you can find a lot of glass structures like the black cube (cubo negro) which is an office building and its facades are made of glass, this building has some particular issue related with the black glass because when you are inside of this building there is a lot of heat in it.

Other structure made of glass in Caracas is Crystal Park (Parque cristal) this building is a great example because like the black cube it is completely covered with glass and it has a problem issue too, this is for the reflective characteristic that glass has, so in front of Crystal Park is the East Park and when the sun reflect on the glass of this building the trees in front are drying. So maybe glass is not for tropical cities or it is just that here in Venezuela people don’t know how to use it.