Glass

** Glass **

Glass is a common material which can be found in a natural state in many parts of the world. It’s commonly used in buildings as transparent windows, internal glazed partitions, and as architectural features. It is also possible to use glass as a structural material, for example, in beams and columns, as well as in the form of "fins" for wind reinforcement, which are visible in many glass frontages like large shop windows.

Glass in buildings can be of a safety type, including wired, heat strengthened (tempered) and laminated glass, and it is a strong material, like most materials glass can be bent until a certain limit. Nowadays the use of glass has become a big revolution about façade and coating structures. Here in Caracas most of the finishes of the news buildings are in glass, you can see so many constructions made with this material and big part of the projects on the city include glass in almost all the buildings. This is a very elegant and stylized material that gives to the building a touch of modernism and technology at the same time.

I think that glass is more used these days because it has embellished the architecture of the city, it also has a moderate cost taking into consideration the cost of any construction these days, and at the time of installation it seems to be quicker that the other materials. It lets you save time and money. In addition it can be replaced more easily in the case of any accident. Wood has been an important construction material since humans began building shelters and houses; it’s an easier material, more practical to carry and work than other natural materials. This could be used in all of the structure except in foundations; it is very lightweight and moderately strong in compression and tension. It has different system of construction, but the principal one is a solid system called log construction, employed only when primitive cutting tools are available, and the skeletal system that requires precise cutting and shaping of lumber.
 * Wood **

This material has been used in the entire world but the history of wood construction begins in China, Korea and Japan principally, and it continues to be used in different techniques and systems, according to the design or the structural demands