Wood+&+Glass

__ ﻿Notes from the oral presentation: __ Characteristics: Types:
 * Wood**
 * 1) Lightness
 * 2) Renewable natural material
 * 3) Fragile in tension and suitable ductile in compression
 * Solid wood
 * Chipboard

__How does wood help to mitigate climate change? (Video)__ Trees are capable of absorb carbon dioxide and then release oxygen. Wood products continue to store the carbon dioxide absorb, and when the new forest is growing it will absorb carbon dioxide again.

__Post-viewing activities for Wood:__ Graphic organizer:

**Glass** __ Notes from the oral presentation: __ Glass is a non crystalline solid material, it is hard and optically transparent. Its main ingredients are: Sand, Soda ash and Limestone Characteristics: Types:
 * 1) Solid and hard
 * 2) Fragile
 * 3) Transparent
 * 4) Bioligically inactive
 * 5) Recyclable
 * Commercial glass or Soda-lime glass
 * Lead glass
 * Borosilicate glass
 * Aluminosicate glass
 * Ninety-six percent silica glass
 * Fused silica glass

__ Conclusions about the use of glass in architecture: __ Today, glassis used all over the world. A designer's pursuit for transparency, weghtlessness and luminosity has been fulfilled by glass. Most major projects around the world use glass in some way to add beauty to buildings and create astounding pieces of art. Glass also has some characteristics that makes it a perfect element for creating specific parts of a building or a house that any other element could.