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I dislike how much glass is used in many of these houses. I imagine they let a LOT of ambient noise and heat inside.
I like the other houses :-)
I dislike how much glass is used in many of these houses. I imagine they let a LOT of ambient noise and heat inside.
I've lived in houses that had too little glass, and one with too much. The one with too much glass rendered half the house uninhabitable certain times of the day in the summer. If you're going to have glass like that, you'll need some sort of external shutter for it.
Really nice to know that I'd have to work till I'm 60 to afford a house like that without taking on serious debt. What a time to be alive. I'm so grateful.
These houses would have been unaffordable to almost everyone at any time I'm history and two hundred years ago no amount of wealth could have bought you them at all. So what again is special about being alive now?
Really nice to know that I'd have to work till I'm 60 to afford a house like that without taking on serious debt. What a time to be alive. I'm so grateful.
The horror of having to settle for having all your needs met and living without insane luxury. Poor you. These houses would have been unaffordable to almost everyone at any time I'm history and two hundred years ago no amount of wealth could have bought you them at all. So what again is special about being alive now?
The sheer comfort of living in a modern house is insane, regardless of the size.
I dislike how much glass is used in many of these houses. I imagine they let a LOT of ambient noise and heat inside.
Source: work in a glass skyscraper
Recently my idea of a dream house would something in the traditional Japanese style with wood, tatami, shoji, and a beautiful garden. I remember being really blown away by the Nomura house [1] in Kanazawa many years ago. Of course I would probably want to update it with better insulation, air conditioning, and more glass/screens to let me enjoy the views of the garden while keeping the bugs out. The best part is you…
A lot of those homes are difficult to retrofit with decent heating and insulation. I had a friend thattried this with an old Beijing hutong whose bones simply weren’t designed for central heating. You can put in something, but it will be expensive and/or ineffective.
I dislike how much glass is used in many of these houses. I imagine they let a LOT of ambient noise and heat inside.
You can build windows that have sound attenuation greater than common wall construction. My office at home has a series of 62"x80" windows effectively forming the walls on two sides of four sides, and smaller windows covering on one side. I had the windows built as 3/16"-PVB_laminate-1/4"-1/2"_gap-1/4". The lamination and the different thicknesses detune the panes, and the large mass provides a lot of attenuation. Yo…
I’ve got to ask - was this a test or are people regularly yelling outside your office?