If you want to make the best use of the interior space, you don't carve up a half dozen secondary masses (using the article's term). You do this because you hav

If you want to make the best use of the interior space, you don't carve up a half dozen secondary masses (using the article's term). You do this because you have bad taste and think it looks fancy/expensive. i.e. You think it looks like a proper mansion when in reality your 3000 sqft house should not be carved up into half a dozen independent chunks as if it's a palace built up over 4 centuries. Maxing out the use of the interior space means one huge box, which is what most "ultramodern" houses in cities are. It's not my aesthetic, but it least it makes sense, unlike putting tacky form over function in the mcmansion style.