Switchable smart glass for Hudson Valley homes and commercial spaces. PDLC privacy glass goes clear to private in seconds, as retrofit film or laminated glass. Serving Rhinebeck, Hudson, Beacon, Millbrook and the Catskills edge.
Phase Glass provides switchable privacy glass, retrofit PDLC smart film and laminated smart glass for residential and commercial projects.
Switchable smart glass, PDLC privacy glass, goes from transparent to private in seconds, as retrofit film for existing glass or laminated glass for new construction. For Hudson Valley glass houses and modern barns: wooded lots, long seasonal light, and weekend houses that sit empty midweek.
The Valley has a long modern-glass tradition, and current work continues it: glass-fronted barns, additions that open to the treeline, houses designed around one uninterrupted view of the ridge. Privacy is seasonal here. Screened by leaves in July, fully exposed by November.
Switchable glass handles that swing without adding curtains to a room designed not to have them. It also suits the weekend-house pattern: privacy on a schedule or a single control while the house is unoccupied. In historic districts the interior-side nature of the work is usually what keeps it out of exterior review altogether.
Switchable smart glass is built around a PDLC layer. Polymer dispersed liquid crystal. With power applied, the crystals align and light passes straight through: the glass reads as ordinary clear glazing. Switch the power off, and the crystals scatter light, turning the glass private. The change takes under a second, with no moving parts and nothing to open or close.
A wall switch, remote, app, or building control system operates the glass: including multi-zone control, so different panels or rooms switch independently. Privacy becomes part of the architecture instead of something bolted onto it.
Service area: Hudson Valley
Yes. The Hudson Valley is a Phase Glass market, including Rhinebeck, Hudson, Beacon, Cold Spring, Kingston, Woodstock, Millbrook and Garrison. Scope is confirmed per project at consultation.
Usually it is the easier path. Retrofit film and interior laminated panels change the interior side of the glazing, and in the clear state the glass reads as it did before, so there is typically no change to the exterior character under review.
Smart glass, also called switchable glass or PDLC glass, is glazing with a switchable liquid-crystal layer. With power applied the crystals align and the glass is clear; switched off, they scatter light and the glass turns private, all in under a second.
Switchable smart film is applied to existing interior glazing, so you keep the glass you already have. Laminated smart glass is a factory-laminated panel with the switchable layer sealed inside, made for new construction or glazing replacement.
In most applications, yes. The glass itself provides the privacy, so there are no blinds, cords or curtains to install, clean or replace.
Both. We supply and support residential, commercial, healthcare and hospitality projects, from a single bathroom window to full glass partition systems.
Share the application, approximate dimensions and any plans or elevations. We review the requirements and return project-specific pricing, along with the configuration we recommend.