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What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?
There are solutions to this, though. Shading glass surfaces and double glazing work well.
adrianratnapala
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Wouldn't double-glazing just make the greenhouse problem worse?
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Not necessarily - you can get low emissivity windows:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_emissivity#Low-emissivity_...
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It wouldn't, since each layer of glazing reduces the amount of solar energy that arrives inside the window, and energy loss from buildings is an overwhelmingly convective and conductive phenomenon.
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