垂直玻璃宅，作为一个高密度当代城市住宅原型，探讨建筑垂直相度上的透明性，同时批判了现代主义的水平透明概念。一方面，垂直玻璃宅是精神的：它的墙体是封闭的，楼板和屋顶是透明的，于是向天与地开放，将居住者置于其间，创造出个人的静思空间。另一方面它是物质的：视觉上，垂直透明性使现代住宅中所需的设备、管线、和家具，包括楼梯，叠加成一个可见的家居系统；垂直玻璃宅成为对“建筑是居住的机器”理念的又一种阐释。
垂直玻璃宅，作为一个高密度当代城市住宅原型，探讨建筑垂直相度上的透明性，同时批判了现代主义的水平透明概念。一方面，垂直玻璃宅是精神的：它的墙体是封闭的，楼板和屋顶是透明的，于是向天与地开放，将居住者置于其间，创造出个人的静思空间。另一方面它是物质的：视觉上，垂直透明性使现代住宅中所需的设备、管线、和家具，包括楼梯，叠加成一个可见的家居系统；垂直玻璃宅成为对“建筑是居住的机器”理念的又一种阐释。
Vertical Glass House is a housing prototype for a high-density contomporary city and discusses the notion of transparency in verticality while serving as a critic of Modernist transparency in horizontality. Vertical Glass House is on one hand spiritual: With enclosed walls and transparent floors as well as roof, the house opens to the sky and the earth, positions the inhabitant right in the middle, and creates a place for meditation. On the other hand,Vertical Glass House is material: Vertical transparency visually connects all the utilities,ductworks, and furniture, including staircase, into a system of domesticity and provides another reading of the modern theory of "Architecture as living machine".