TY - JOUR TI - New scopes of facades’ design as a result of the application of optical filter technologies AU - Konarzewska, Bogusława AU - Nyka, Lucyna TI - New scopes of facades’ design as a result of the application of optical filter technologies AB - Modern facades, whether made of glass or including transparent, translucent or reflective elements, let through a particular light spectrum or change its intensity in many different ways. “Filtering facades” may change the image seen through them or change the colour of passing light according to specific circumstances: the angle of observation or temperature. These indicated properties of facades acting as “filters” were made possible due to the great technological development observed in the last two to three decades, though the general characteristic of this phenomenon of optical filters had already been explored since the XVII century by Newton, and later on by Fresnel, Fraunhofer, Maxwell and Planck. Thanks to material engineering today it is possible to create unique glass facades with great functional properties, yet architects, engineers and artists do not stop at this point. The experiments undertaken in these fields explore transparency, reflection, refraction and diffusion and lead to fascinating effects that are worth examination. VL - 2014 IS - Architektura Zeszyt 7 A (14) 2014 PY - 2014 SN - 0011-4561 C1 - 2353-737X SP - 183 EP - 191 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/czasopismo-techniczne/artykul/new-scopes-of-facades-design-as-a-result-of-the-application-of-optical-filter-technologies KW - optical filters KW - glass facades KW - filtering façade