The budget-friendly move brings more sunlight into this renovated and rock-inspired home in Auckland, New Zealand.

The villa’s expansive transparent roof stretches beyond the house, extending its available living space outside. The clear roof panels are made from durable polycarbonate and they allow daylight ...

The roofing protects the home’s cross-laminated timber frame from rain while letting an abundance of light into the central ...

It could be used for load-bearing windows and roofs,” Hu told the New Scientist. “It can be potentially used to make a see-through house.” The transparent wood also emits a "high optical ...

A house with an asymmetrical roof on the Japanese island of Hokkaido has been renovated and extended by architecture studio Yoshichika Takagi + Associates. Yoshichika Takagi + Associates has ...

Modernist architect Don Wrobleski is selling the “almost transparent” house in Bannockburn he designed ... spend about another $75,000 on a new roof, said Lou Zucaro, the Baird & Warner ...

The team's findings were derived, in part, from tests on tiny model house with a transparent ... distributed around a space with a transparent wood roof than a glass roof. The channels in the ...

“The transparent wood is lighter and stronger than glass. It could be used for load-bearing windows and roofs,” says Hu. “It can be potentially used to make a see-through house.” Receive a ...

In fact, they say that theoretically, an entire house could be made transparent. It is not clear why anyone would want to live in a transparent house, but for people who do, it would be OK to ...