WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Alvar AaltoRoom in TKY 2

This is a room in a student dormitory at Aalto University (formerly the Helsinki University of Technology) which is located in a suburb of H…

Alvar Aalto Living room of Mäntylä

This is the living room of a house designed for a senior engineer at the Tampella factory in Inkeroinen an area that thrived on the wood ind…

Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen’s Showcase windows of the Pohjola Insurance Building

This insurance company building located on a corner lot along Aleksanterinkatu in central Helsinki was designed by the national romanticist …

Kay FiskerStorefront at Stefansgård

The apartment building in Copenhagen. Due to restrictions placed on the use of steel during World War II a steel lintel could not be used. K…

Arne JacobsenBoll House

This Jacobsen’s early residential work is in the suburbs of Copenhagen. This is a bay window with a semi-regular hexagonal plane protr…

Arne JacobsenHarby Elementary School

The atrium hall with paintings on the wall in Harvey Elementary School on the island of Funen. Three windows which straddle the border betwe…

Arne JacobsenSoholm I

The Soholm Row Houses are built at Bellevue Beach and Jacobsen himself purchased one of the Soholm I units for use making the interior a pla…

Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”

“Human behaviors are the best design resources.” Architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow/Professor Tokyo Institute of Technology) has…

House of Itakura as a Core-House

Window Research Institute interviewed with Mr. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto representative of Atelier Bow-Wow about “House of Itakura” as a Core-Hous…