House with Glass Walls Exhibited in Poland

AN UNUSUAL building that formed an interesting feature of an exposition staged recently at Poznan, Poland, suggests how dwellings of the future may appear if men eventually live in glass houses. Apart from a few posts and beams, the structure is almost entirely of glass. Built in an equal-sided L-shape, with a central tower, the house offers maximum sunlight and ventilation.

Since hothouses almost entirely of glass minister admirably to the needs of plants, some health authorities see no reason why glass houses should not be used for human dwellings. In fact, the United States Public Health Service, in: 1928, erected a building of which glass was the principal material, in an attempt to determine experimentally how much sunlight should be admitted to a house and how large and of what shape windows should be (P. S. M., July ’28, p.74). A few months ago, a Chicago architect suggested the use of translucent casein as a new material for the walls of houses (P. S. M., Sept. ’29, p. 47).