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Originally Posted by LostInTheZone
^so... a rowhouse with brick walls that help with climate control, bay windows that let in a lot of light, and a pitched mansard roof that sheds snow and rain and allows for an extra story up top... is completely irrelevant to modern life?
what I can't stand about modernism is the arrogant assumption that pre-Bauhaus architecture was somehow NOT functional, and that the past has nothing to teach us.
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A brick house may help to regulate a more even temperature throughout the day, but it is a bad choice from an energy standpoint it doesn't hold up to stick build with proper fiberglass insulation. The R value of brick per inch is only 0.44 Stick built with a 6 inch exterior stud will be approximately R-30