Window Type

Rivalled only by clocks as perfect timekeepers, windows are our portal between the internal and external. They have, like many other architectural elements, fallen prey to mass production and standardisation of the generic. The window has morphed into an unrecognisable and seemingly undisturbed sheet of glass, flawless. This offers little to the spaces internally and, as those outside attempt a glimpse of a building’s inner workings, they are only able to see themselves and their community in the reflection.  

What have we lost to the ‘junk space’ of generic modernisation and industrialisation? Should we not, at least when faced with a window, be able to see some remnant of design consideration in such an integral architectural domain. We might realise, when we can no longer replace what we have destroyed, that glass is only part of a window and that the whole is incomparably greater than its parts.   

Brushed up, clashing, and asserting a position, these windows represent various augmented interactions between the generic façade, slab and ceiling which are otherwise absent from a typical curtain wall application. The windows are the enabler for social exchanges, quiet moments, grand connections, tactile cues, and occupational enclosures. As the uncanny is explored through scale, position, materiality, and function, each window quietly reveals itself as a character of an entirely new description.