- Categories:
- Colored Glass
- Channel (U-Shaped) Glass
- Fritted Glass
- Textured Glass
- Retrofit
- Civic
- Educational & Museums
Project Info
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Completion Year
- 2017
- Architect
- SmithGroup
- GC
- Clark Construction
- Installer
- Innovo (interiors) and Icon (exteriors)
Project Description
Visitors to the Museum of the Bible are greeted by monumental 22.5-foot tall channel glass walls featuring our Clarissimo texture and a translucent white color frit. The shimmering white glass conveys an icy appearance, symbolic of the original building’s function as cold storage facility, circa 1923. The white channel glass continues into the upper portions of the hallway, where it reflects images projected onto the ceiling. At the end of the hall, select channels are partially fritted to provide seamless transition from opacity to transparency. Thus, the channel glass effortlessly changes its role from wall cladding to a translucent floor-to-ceiling glass partition that opens views from the upper story to the main hallway below.
Our channel glass also features on the exterior, in combination with clear glass vision lites. The two materials are installed side-by-side in a tailored curtain wall frame system designed collaboratively by the architects and Bendheim. The project uses a mix of our Clarissimo and 504 Rough Cast channel glass textures, Low-E thermal performance coating, white and translucent grey ceramic color frits, single-glazed I-41 and SF-60S frame systems, as well as our double-glazed, thermally-broken SF-60 frame system in a custom finish.
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