Glass has always been considered the main material to use in Modern interior design for its special qualities of transparency and shimmering look, however this didn’t help the criticism it got for the lack of strength against being fragile, so experiments were made to proof its strength and came up with great but expensive results.

Studies has been made by Lars Berglund, a researcher at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology, to find a new affordable material with the same quality of transparency but with efficient durability, and so he started working on Swedish lumber to figure out a way to give wood new properties, and the transparent wood composite result came to existence.

透明木材比玻璃的优点是它具有不透明的木材的所有强度 - 但仍然可以光线。此过程可用于创建从透明木结构到永不破裂或破碎的承载窗户的所有内容。想想如何使用它来创建由木材而不是化学处理的玻璃制成的全新类型的可持续太阳能电池板。

目前，Berglund承认，在这种革命性产品袭击市场之前，他有很多工作要做。我只能想象建筑师和设计师最终掌握了透明的木材时会做些什么。