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Originally Posted by Maestro
I would agree most of these places are not really comfortable or livable, they look great and all, however, many times they have some really serious downs sides that is no obviously until you spend time in those spaces.
I once had a really nice corner officer in a building that was had entire glass facade which look great from the outside and inside. However it was pain to deal with as the weather changed. In my case my office was unusable in winter. My office got direct sun light form noon to 4 in the afternoon during bright sunny days when the temp was near freezing my officer would be 80 or 90. The reason was the interior of the building still needed heating since it was 32 degrees out and there was no way to have air conditioning and heating going at the same time, yes smaller temp zones would have worked, but they used couple very large conditioning systems for the entire building.
When you have homes with lots of glass like this they look really neat but living in them can be like living in a green house, they get really hot.
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what you said is exactly what others have experienced in similar architecture. if steve hermann paid a lot of consulting fees for environmental controls specialists then he'll be good. but even with opaque windows it can still considerably heat up the place. the heat will always penetrate those glazing, that is why an ideal shading system is located outside the glazing where the overhang is not too deep or too shallow but just enough to block out direct summer sunlight and let the sun in for winter to heat the house.
that architecture is clean and detailing a construction like that takes a lot of time and thinking but it would have its own inconveniences.