Prefabricated Glass House

Abstract

A house, (or other building) built using structural insulated panels (comprising a frame around a slab of polystyrene). Tempered glass covers the panels that are used in the roof and outside walls, and is also used for inside walls and partitions. Windows and skylights are holes in the polystyrene, but are covered by the same glass. Light emitting diodes or starlights are set between the glass covering and the polystyrene. The windows cannot be opened, but fresh air may be introduced by heat recovery ventilators or extra glass outside doors. Structural insulated panels used in forming floors are covered by oriented strand board.

1 . A building comprising:
 polystyrene slabs; and   tempered glass covering some of the polystyrene slabs.   
     
     
         2 . The building according to  claim 1 , wherein the building is a prefabricated house. 
     
     
         3 . The building according to  claim 2 , wherein the polystyrene slabs are surrounded by frames to form structural insulated panels. 
     
     
         4 . The building according to  claim 3 , wherein structural insulated panels used in walls and roofs have tempered glass faces. 
     
     
         5 . The building according to  claim 4 , wherein structural insulated panels used in floors have orientated strand board faces. 
     
     
         6 . The building according to  claim 5 , further comprising:
 partition sections that do riot contain polystyrene, but have tempered glass faces.   
     
     
         7 . The building according to  claim 6 , wherein the partition sections are constructed using studs and plates, and are not insulated. 
     
     
         8 . The building according to  claim 7 , wherein the frames of the structural insulated panels and the partition sections have side framing members extended to overlap the sides of adjacent frames of structural insulated panels and partition sections. 
     
     
         9 . The building according to  claim 8 , wherein the side framing members are extended by scantlings, with the scantlings of adjacent framing members fitting together and being fastened by attachment members, while leaving channels for electrical wiring. 
     
     
         10 . The building according to  claim 9 , wherein the channels for electrical wiring are covered by tempered glass cover strips, with holes for attachment members. 
     
     
         11 . The building according to  claim 1 , wherein some of the polystyrene slabs are of a greater length and some are of a lesser length, and polystyrene slabs of the greater length are joined to polystyrene slabs of the lesser length to form shapes resembling the capital letter T, with slabs of the greater length forming the tops of the tees, and slabs of the lesser length forming the bases of the tees. 
     
     
         12 . The building according to  claim 11 , wherein some of the tees are placed right-side-up and others are placed upside-down, with the right-side-up tees alternating and being adjacent to the upside-down tees. 
     
     
         13 . The building according to  claim 12 , wherein electrical wiring for light emitting diodes passes through gaps between the tees and through holes bored in the bases of the tees. 
     
     
         14 . The building according to  claim 13 , wherein each pair of polystyrene slabs joined to form a tee is surrounded by a single frame to formed a single T-shaped structural insulated panel. 
     
     
         15 . The building according to  claim 14 , wherein the T-shaped structural insulated panels have tempered glass facing. 
     
     
         16 . The building according to  claim 4 , wherein holes are cut in the polystyrene slabs to form windows in some of the structural insulated panels used in walls and roofs. 
     
     
         17 . The building according to  claim 16 , wherein the structural insulated panels used in walls and roofs have the tempered glass facing on each of two opposite sides. 
     
     
         18 . The building according to  claim 17 , wherein the tempered glass facing on at least one side of at least one of the structural insulated panels is double pane thermal glass. 
     
     
         19 . The building according to  claim 18 , wherein one of the panes of the double pane thermal glass can be turned opaque by moving an electric power switch. 
     
     
         20 . The building according to  claim 4 , wherein doors are formed from structural insulated panels having tempered glass faces on both sides, with frames that can accommodate door latches.