Loisa, Matías - Ongoing work: Re-interpreting Can Lis Thresholds

 Re-interpreting Can Lis windows to the new rising sun typology inspired on MD.

Dealing with specific problems:

• Translation from fixed glass to window that allow the person to go outside. (lack of railing or frames, pool used as invisible obstacle to avoid balustrade).
• Light transition, minimun threshold and semicovered protection.
• Invisible interior-exterior transition: Location of the glass (hidden frame is not so important, but the location of the glass to avoid reflections that indicate the limit between interior and exterior).
• Visual obstacles: roof (can be raise) and floor, which implies a problem for a wheelchair user.
• Conversion from prismatic threshold to new curved typologies inspired on rising sun shape.
  
  
  Testing location of glass: inside threshold and on the interior:
  CONCLUSION: GLASS HAS TO BE PLACED ON THE EXTERIOR

Threshold studies: testing 11 different threshold for tangency and light shade.