There were glass-treaded metal staircases inside that led to the upper projection room that showed a kaleidoscope of colors.Between the staircases was a seven-tiered cascading waterfall with underwater lighting. The interior had prisms producing colored rays from the outside sunlight.The floor-to-ceiling colored glass walls were mosaic. All this had the effect of a large crystal producing a large variety of colors.The frieze of the Glass Pavilion was written with aphoristic poems of glass done by the anarcho-socialist writer Paul Scheerbart.
Without a glass palace, life is a conviction. "Paul Scheerbart in 1914 wrote a book called Glasarchitektur ("Architecture in glass") and in turn dedicated it to Taut.Taut in 1914 founded a magazine called Frühlicht ("Dawn's Light") for his Expressionist circle of followers. It focused on the iconography of glass which he drew from which is represented in his Glass Pavilion. This philosophy can be traced back to accounts of Solomon's Temple. An early drawing of the Glass Pavilion by Taut says he made it in the spirit of a Gothic cathedral.