In healthcare, lobby facades and feature glass curtain walls can serve to welcome patients into a space of transparency, openness, and healing. VS1 curtain walls offer superior transparency while achieving excellent thermal performance.
Designed by HKS & Perkins&Will, installed by Harmon
VS1-S230 was selected for a long span lobby scope. At 36’ high and with 7’ wide bays, the VS1-S assembly supports jumbo-size face glass with built-up welded T profiles.
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➥ Direct Glaze · Jumbo Glass Sizes ❍ VS1-S230
Designed by Ennead Architects, installed by National Glass & Metal
The VS1-A220 methodology is known industry-wide for simplicity of installation. It is also cost-effective and creates a clean curtain wall aesthetic with a pure expression of the glass and frameless joints at the interior.
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➥ LEED Gold · Long Span ❍ VS1-A220
Designed by HDR, to be installed by Permasteelisa
This new healthcare campus in San Francisco will feature an outdoor terrace enclosed by a VS1-A windscreen. The aluminum mullions span 7’ high, with the glass cantilevering past the top of the mullions to reach 9’.
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➥ Windscreens & Safety Barriers ❍ VS1-A
Designed by Ayers Saint Gross, CO Architects, Neighboring Concepts; installed by Harmon
The Howard R. Levine Center for Education will welcome visitors with a 30’ VS1 facade on four elevations. Exterior mullions create strong vertical accents.
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➥ All-Glass Corners · Exterior Mullions ❍ VS1-A
Designed by Canon Design, installed by Harmon
This project will feature a VS1 façade with both interior and exterior mullions, wrapping around the entire building in a curved, undulating geometry with varying heights creating a spectacular visual effect.
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➥ Exterior Mullions · Segmented Wall · Toggle Fittings ❍ VS1-A100 & VS1-A110
Designed by Page, installed by Glass & Metals Inc
VS1 can easily accommodate alternate façade materials—in this case plexiglass for the safety of the patients—due to the simplicity of the fitting design. This project also features a SSG + Direct Glaze scope.
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➥ Alternate Material Variation ❍ VS1-A230
Designed by AE7, installed by DM Products
This renovated space now features a 39’-2” clear spanning VS1 lobby facade. The installation includes two all-glass cube vestibules and a revolving door vestibule.
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➥ All-Glass Vestibules · Long Spans ❍ VS1-A
Designed by IKM Architecture, installed by DM Products
This cancer center features three VS1 scopes: a 27’ folded wall, a serpentine wall of the same height, and a 55’ clear span atrium enclosure.
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➥ Faceted Facade · Segmented Wall · Shading Elements ❍ VS1-A
Designed by Gensler, installed by Ventana
This Chicago medical facility is another collaboration between Innovation Glass and the Gensler design team. A two-story VS1 facade wraps around the entryway of the building, featuring our standard 8” mullion and triple IGU, 1 13/16”-thick glass.
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➥ Triple IGU Glass ❍ VS1-A100
Designed by SCB, installed by Architectural Glass & Metal
The VS1 system was used to achieve two 25’ “jewel box” glass entrance atriums with all-glass corners for this new health services company.
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➥ Long Spans ❍ VS1-A
Designed by Gensler, installed by Permasteelisa
The 27-story building features a 38’-high VS1 lobby wall with all-glass corners and a VS1 entry vestibule.
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➥ All-glass corners · All-glass vestibules · Long spans ❍ VS1-A
Designed by HOK, installed by Harmon
The VS1 system was used as the main facade system for this extension to the existing hospital. The double curved wall clear spans 30’ and follows a serpentine floor plan created by a 60’ radius of curvature; the wall form transitions from a concave to a convex profile seamlessly.
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➥ Segmented wall
Designed by EYP
The 20,000-square-foot facility features a 35-foot VS1 atrium wall at the lobby with an all-glass full height corner.
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➥ Shading Elements ❍ VS1-A
