Curved Glass: Only a Few Pieces Are Truly Bent

Close-up of the corner of an organically curved building. The curved corner uses a few truly hot-bent large-sized curved glass panels, reflecting a stretched and distorted streetscape. The rest of the facade consists of flat glass folded into a polygon along the curve, but with fine and dense divisions, appearing round from a distance. The reflection of the curved glass and the reflection of the flat glass create subtle differences. Avoid: all glass being divided by thick vertical mullions, the curved part becoming a noticeable sharp angle, the glass using a dark reflective coating, the reflected scene being overly chaotic.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟有機曲線建築的轉角近景。弧形轉角處使用幾片真正熱彎的大尺寸曲面玻璃,反射出被拉長變形的街景;其餘的立面則是平板玻璃順著曲線折成多邊形,但分割細而密,遠看仍是圓的。曲面玻璃的反射與平板玻璃的反射形成細微的差異。避免:所有玻璃都使用粗大的豎框分割、曲面處變成明顯的折角、玻璃使用深色反光鍍膜、反射畫面過於混亂。