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Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners
Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners
Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners
Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners
Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners
Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners
Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners
Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners
Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners
Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners
Glass Butterfly,  | International Design Awards Winners

Glass Butterfly

Lead DesignersJohn Marx
Prize(s)Honorable Mention
Entry Description

The Glass Butterfly is inspired by a formal negotiation between the delicacy of glass and its structural integrity. The competition’s programmatic purpose was to take a bus shelter, an atypical, ubiquitous object within the public realm and create a design for a rural area of Denmark.

Self-referential and authoritative in the landscape; trees, weaving grass, and big canopies were key inspirational organic forms. Like a graceful butterfly, this structure radiates its immaterial presence to its surroundings. This scalable, transparent container, almost a frozen membrane, is a place of protection, sheltering users from rain, wind, and the sun.

Despite its seemingly imminent flight from the ground, this artifact is securely anchored to the soil through unobtrusive steel connections. Scalability and maximum structural integrity are provided through graceful, U-shaped glass bays. Photovoltaic panels on the roof power the structure and serve as sun shading devices to shield those sitting below.