PriWatt Reverse Glass Installed at Jim Moran Foundation
Fort Lauderdale, Florida · PriWatt reverse glass
Glass that is clear when nobody is switching it
The Jim Moran Foundation’s new headquarters was detailed to be open: sightlines through the floor, daylight into the offices, joinery you are meant to look at. Privacy had to be available in it without becoming its normal state.
Why reverse mode, in an office
Conventional switchable glass is frosted until you power it, and it needs current the whole time it is transparent. In an office that is transparent most of the working day, that is the wrong default in two ways at once: the room draws power to look normal, and it looks abnormal the moment anything interrupts the supply.
PriWatt reverse glass turns it around. Unpowered, it is optically clear, the state the building spends its day in. Current is applied only when someone wants privacy, and the panel frosts evenly at the press of a button.
In the building
The system was installed by Smart Glass Technologies, PriWatt’s US distributor. The architectural woodwork is by Beaubois Millwork, with the scope coordinated by Benjamin Taylor. That matters more than a credit line here: switchable glass meeting bespoke joinery is where the tolerances and the wiring have to be agreed before either is made.
What the reverse logic buys a commercial interior
- No standing power draw for the state the building is in most of the day
- The default look is clear glass, not a frosted panel waiting to be switched
- Privacy at a press, with no blinds or curtains anywhere in the detail
- Daylight through the floor plate, and sightlines that stay open
- One less thing in an executive room for the eye to catch on
Bronze and grey, not only white
Reverse glass can be produced in bronze or grey as well as the usual white. Against timber, brass and darker interior palettes that reads as part of the material scheme and not as a white rectangle switched into it. That is the difference between glass that was specified and glass that was added.
Specified on this project
PriWatt PNLC reverse glass
Clear unpowered, private when switched, in white, bronze or grey.
Offices and boardrooms
Executive offices, meeting rooms and the doors between them.
Isolation transformers
The low-voltage supply behind a run of switchable glass.
Reverse glass for your interior
Send the door or partition schedule and the finishes it has to sit with. PriWatt reverse glass is made in Pompano Beach, Florida, and quoted per project.
