Glass Garden Room with bespoke oversized mirror doors

When the outside light level is higher than the interior light level, visual seclusion can be established through the oversized mirror glass. From the outside, this disparity in light gives the glass doors a reflected, mirrored look, yet on the inside, it is transparent.

These kinds of reflective glass coatings have historically been applied to commercial buildings as a simple and efficient method of limiting the amount of solar gain that enters the structure and lowering cooling expenses.

For this project, the reflective coating on the oversized mirror doors was used for two main reasons. One being that the small garden would have felt even smaller with traditional glazing systems installed as they would be fully visible, the reflective glazing creates the illusion that the garden carries on beyond the steel box extension. The second reason was to fully protect the vintage Porsche from any solar damage as older cars are susceptible to paint damage from extreme sunlight.