Wood+and+Glass





Wood is an easy material to work with and it can be used for everything in a construction except for the foundations. Its strength comes from its organic nature but it must be carefully selected and seasoned. Log construction and skeletal system are two ways of build with wood. Wood was used in the past for floors and coverings on masonry buildings. The history of wood can be traced in China, Japan and northern Europe and North America, and it continues to be used.

__How does wood help to mitigate climate change? __
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**What are your conclusions about the use of glass in architecture/urban planning?** Glass is a great construction material and beautiful too, it has some characteristics with the transparency, fragility, reflection and that glass permits the entry of sunlight. can find a lot of glass structures,those buildings are particular because facades are made of glass that give a elegant imagen. But these buildings have a big problem, when the sun reflect on the glass of this building ,what is around it gets very hot. So maybe glass is not more appropriate for tropical cities.