Thursday, February 22, 2024

Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace (1851), a new kind of construction

 


the architect, Joseph Paxton was a famous gardener at the time and had experimented with glasshouse construction. by using combinations of prefabricated cast iron, laminated wood, and standard-sized glass sheets, Paxton created the “ridge-and-furrow” roof design. 


nobody had seen anything like it. 


it became a sort of museum of sorts.


here's the plan of both floors:



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