Exteriors

Light, reflections, transparency. Brilliant, airy, and harmonious spaces. The glass for cladding buildings is much more than a mere building material: it's the clothes that adorn a building.

In contemporary architecture, buildings are designed to enhance sunlight and the beauty of the surrounding landscape.
The large Glass Emotion windows for outdoors are transparent walls that ensure a total continuity between inside and outside environments. It’s almost as if your garden becomes an extension to the building itself. The visual effect is truly striking: it’s difficult to spot where the building ends and the outdoor area begins.

With the possibility of creating large transparent surfaces Glass Emotion is your ideal partner for creating solar greenhouses, bioclimatic greenhouses, and winter gardens.

Defence

Strength, safety and security with the transparency of glass.

To protect people from the risk of injury, safety glass undergoes two processes: tempering and lamination. Through a tempering heat treatment, glass sheets acquire a resistance to mechanical and thermal stresses that are significantly higher than those of ordinary glass. If it breaks, it shatters into small fragments which are not very sharp.

Laminated safety glass is made up of two or more sheets sandwiched together with plastic film. If it breaks, the broken fragments stay glued to the film and are held in place.
By using a sandwich comprising interleaved glass and plastic layers of the right thicknesses, we can achieve glazing which is burglar-, vandalism-, bullet-, and explosion-proof.

The UNI 7697: 2015 Standard establishes the criteria for choosing the right glass to use in specific situations to ensure the minimum safety requirements for users.

Floors

An expanse of transparent and translucent glass floating above the ground. Walking becomes like floating above the ground.

Glass Emotion glass floors are walkable floors in structural glass made to withstand variable loads in accordance with Italian Construction Standards for a range of different installation environments.

Floors are made of laminated glass sheets in the appropriate thicknesses, with multiple finishes: transparent, satin, or coloured, and in non-slip versions, achieved by etching the surface with a wide range of textures. The use of an extra-clear glass base lends greater brilliance and transparency to the material.

Wraps

The right glass in the right place: call it insulating glass. We guide you in your selection of the most suitable glass across the various areas of application.

The choice of correct glazing must take into consideration thermal insulation (winter and summer), acoustic insulation and safety features.
The performance and efficiency of glass in winter is represented by its Ug value: the lower the value the better insulator the glass is and the more money you save on heating bills. By combining more interspaces, using low-E glass, and including noble gases such as argon and krypton, glass thermal insulation characteristics can reach Ug values as low as 0.5: ten times better insulating performance than a single pane of 4 mm-thick glass!

Summer performance efficiency is given by glass’s ability to insulate from solar radiation in the summer months and is expressed by its solar factor SF. The lower the value, the more efficient the glass is at regulating the sun’s energy. Acoustic insulation is defined with the reduction value of the external noise Rw expressed in decibels dB. A higher Rw value expresses a higher acoustic insulation capacity.
Italian Ministerial Decree of 5/12/97 establishes the limits to be met based on the intended use.

Railings

Feel protected...without barriers. Let your gaze have no boundaries.

Glass Emotion glass balustrades provide transparent fall protection in laminated safety glass. Rigid plastic is sandwiched between the two panes to ensure unrivalled performance in terms of rigidity, higher breaking strengths, and greater resistance to high temperatures. The balustrades can be supplied with a minimum height of 1 metre from the walking surface or greater based on specifications from your local authority, and are always fully compliant with standards requiring that railings and balustrades be non-climbable.

The choice of fixing system employs stainless steel clamps or the fixing of the glass within an extruded aluminium profile either floor- or face-fixed.

Stairs

Lightweight staircases: every step is an emotion.

Glass Emotion staircases are only available made to measure, to ensure they fit perfectly into the required space.
Each step is made in anti-slip laminated glass with a wide choice of textures and colours, which enhance the three-dimensional perception. Anti-slip and wear-resistant performance are both certified in accordance with the main international standards.