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Living Room, Samuel Freeman House,
Los Angeles, California, 1924, Frank Lloyd Wright

Window-walls offer more expansive views and permit
a greater amount of daylight to penetrate a space
than any of the previous examples of openings. If
they are oriented to capture direct sunlight, sunshading devices may be necessary to reduce glare
and excessive heat gain within the space.
While a window-wall weakens the vertical boundaries
of a space, it creates the potential for visually
expanding the space beyond its physical boundaries.

Living Room, Villa Mairea, Noormarkku, Finland,
1938–39, Alvar Aalto

Combining a window-wall with a large skylight
overhead creates a sun room or greenhouse space.
The boundaries between inside and outside, defined
by the linear members of a frame, become obscure
and tenuous.

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