2017 / Material Design / Manufacturing / Professional

Flexiglass

• Company
  CONCEPTICONstudio, Italy
• Lead Designer
  Andrea Cingoli
• Project Link
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It is a new method of shaping tempered
laminated glass, without using heat. The
idea is to make glass art more accessible
and cheaper, using recycled materials.
It allows users to shape a sheet of tempered
laminated glass at low temperatures (without
the use of ovens) and fixate the shape to
obtain the desired form, curved and complex
as it may be.
Starting from a panel of laminated, tempered
glass the user proceeds to break the glass
and then shape it, cut it, or both as he
desires. The glass can be broken over a
shape, or subsequently placed as required.
The middle section of the panel, the PVB
sheet, holds the glass together during this
phase. The fact that the glass is tempered
prevents dangerous shards from forming and
allows a better manipulation. After the
shape is achieved, the glass is covered in a
resin, giving the newly found shape rigidity
and resistance. Now the form gains a new
smoothness, given by the resin that
penetrates the spaces between the broken
portions of the glass.
Flexiglass allows some advantages in the
field of glass shaping and production:
-The lack of need for high temperatures
guarantees that even modest artists can use
this process.
-Flexiglass allows producers of tempered
laminated glass to use compromised
production lots, which are usually removed
from retail.
-The effect of the purposely broken is
unique.
-It allows for the shaping of large sheets
of glass, limited only by the size a company
can produce.
-The resin can be colored and painted if the
user desires so.
-Flexiglass can take on almost any shape
desired, in order of what the designer can
handle.
Flexiglass can become a very sustainable
choice in glass art applications, varying
from pure artwork to household design.

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