Prepared by Dr. Ahmed Azmy

Transparency Transparency is describes as a condition that allows one to see into or through a building. it is now possible to have an independent wall of glass, a skin of glass around a building : no longer a solid wall with windows. Even though the window might be the dominant part - this window i s the wall itself, or in other words, this wall is itself the window.

Transparency

The first type is one-way transparency which came out of very early needs to allow light to penetrate the envelope of a dwelling. Within architecture the concept of one way transparency is generally accepted as a functional opening in a solid wall or roof where the visual connection between interior and exterior plays a minor role. Transparency

Two-way transparency basically describes a visual connection into, and from the interior. Transparency

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