Design of large standard elements: what is it

The phenomenon of this kind was marked by the beginning of the second half of the XIX century. For the World Exhibition, which took place in London in 1851, it was simply impossible to build a traditional building. Time did not allow, there was an lack of money and materials. The real alternative was the plan of the gardener Joseph Pacoston — to create a “crystal palace” — an increased greenhouse of metal elements and glass increased to the required size. Contemporaries were most amazed by the dematerialization of the building, the transparency of the structures of a huge structure, opposing ideas about monumentality. The novelty of the building and the other side, at first not appreciated.