iG CUSTOM PROJECTS
Bespoke Details
Tension-Based Structures • Steel Facades • Speciality Steel Structures • All-Glass Structures
True to its name, Innovation Glass has its roots in solving complex designs with custom approaches, including Tension Based Structures, Steel Facades, Specialty Steel Structures, and All-Glass Structures. Additionally, projects led by Franz Safford as principal in charge before the founding of Innovation Glass can be found at the bottom of this page.
The Innovation Glass mission has always been to break new ground and seek inventive solutions to complex challenges.
Tension Based Structures
Steel Facades
Speciality Steel Structures
All-Glass Structures
Projects by Franz Safford as Principal in Charge
I had the great fortune to collaborate with Mic Patterson and Tejav Deganyar, my partners at ASI Advanced Structures Incorporated. Until its acquisition by Enclos in 2007 ASI was the leading design/build specialty structures firm in the United States authoring some of the most innovative facades in the country and the world. During that 17 year journey I acquired a unique level of knowledge and experience in the implementation of truly innovative structures including the first cable net constructed in the US, the first hypar surface cable net ever built and stressed shell structures. The design solution approach of integrating the functions of a facade into an optimized whole pioneered at ASI was carried forward to the way we solve problems at Innovation Glass. To highlight that history behind iG we present some major projects for which I served as the principal in charge (PIC).
Learn more about Franz’s experience in custom work, which paved the way for VS1, a new kit of parts.