A Contemporary Take on Glass Blocks

A contemporary glass block wall. The blocks are large, square or rectangular, with noticeable thickness and a smooth surface, not the traditional wavy pattern. The color is a faint smoky gray or a transparent with a hint of green. The mortar joints are extremely thin and dark. When light passes through from behind, it is refracted by the thickness of the blocks into soft, blocky halos, and human figures become blurred color blocks. Avoid: using traditional small wavy glass blocks, making the mortar joints too wide to form a prominent grid, using colored glass blocks, making the glass block wall curved and losing its geometric sense.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一道當代做法的玻璃磚牆。磚是大尺寸的方形或長條形,厚度明顯,表面是平滑而非傳統的水波紋;顏色是淡淡的煙燻灰或帶綠的透明。砌縫極細,是深色的。後方的光透過來時被磚體的厚度折射成柔和的塊狀光暈,人影變成模糊的色塊。避免:使用傳統的小尺寸水波紋玻璃磚、讓砌縫過寬變成明顯的網格、使用彩色的玻璃磚、把玻璃磚牆做成弧形失去幾何感。