Friday, January 15, 2016

transparency and reflection

the yonge and bloor subway shelter, an example of literal transparency in architecture.

here the phenomena is trippled in effect because both the near and far walls of the shelter are glass and then beyond them the wall of the building has windows looking over the shelter.

the windows in the upper half of the buildings wall reflect the back sides of both walls of the shelter while the far wall of the shelter does the same for the nearest wall.