You aren't missing anything. In fact I agree on all points you made. I sometimes wonder if there is something in the water at the art and design schools where the staff and students drink it, and end up loosing their ability to feel. This leads to a disconnect between them and others. Maybe it's the Frank Loyd Wright effect? Students of architecture can sometimes become so focused on the style FLW had, that they too in turn begin to make the same mistakes he made in all the residential builds he designed. It's beautiful to look at from the outside. But inside they’re a nightmare. He refused to listen to the people commissioning him to design a home for them. Each project became a structural representation of the issues that he was unwilling to address within himself, whilst needing to feed his massive ego. A textbook narcissist that couldn't relate to others, and the end product that was always over budget, and took far longer to complete than the dates he’d give. Resulting in buildings the owners found uninhabitable. Nobody wants to be completely exposed while they are sitting on the toilet, or getting in and out of the bath. How comfortable, and secure a feeling is this place going to inspire within the inhabitants, when the clearing that this glass box sits out in the middle of is surrounded by walls of forrest that they cannot see into, because of the stark contrast and lack of radiation to soften and blend the 2 together? The materials are nice. Although rammed earth generally has more earth from the location in it's composition, to tie it into the landscape. Warming the look of the walls up a bit and creating that feeling that you’re in nature. So you wouldn't need to make a glass walled bathroom to feel "at one" with nature while you go #2. I mean...........

Haven't you watched Last of Us?