almost the entire south side (almost) room-high. >3m room height -> approx. 30 linear meters, spread over 3 floors. (current floor plan is rather long and narrow)
So, you mean three floors each 3m high and 10m wide – but in between / alongside there are still wall piers that carry the roof above?
You ask so many fragmented individual questions about your house, but none of your considerations can be viewed in context. Especially when it is impossible to guess how many different designs your individual questions belong to.
Just discuss a coherent design here – no matter how many details are still missing. I have the feeling you are trying to piece together a house as a shopping list of components from roof prices and window prices, etc. This soufflé will probably collapse in the oven.
also here: the cheaper solution. What this is I absolutely cannot assess, hence this thread.
... and another half dozen more, until you realize that asking for the recipe for hash cookies spoonful by spoonful will not lead to the goal.
if it were _significantly_ cheaper at 2.4m, I could probably live with 2.4m. But if possible, of course, 3m would be very nice.
And what do you want to do with the 60 cm in between? – with such a large window area – and on the south side too! – you will have to install shading there, otherwise you will have a sauna.
relatively coherent. The wind load per window element should remain the same, in case you mean the wind load on the remaining substructure (rest of the wall etc.), that is clarified.
I mean that wind hits a wall. If there are too few diffusers (trees etc.) in front of it, it presses very strongly against the panes. To illustrate somewhat exaggeratedly, it blows them up like sails. The frames at the edge have to hold that. The larger the area (or the longer the edges), the more "deflection" the frame has to withstand. Then the profiles have to be stiffer, as with heavier glass.
I can quickly look up the price for a toilet window, calculated as if it hypothetically had ninety square meters. But it would be a gigantic error if you transferred this number into your budget and thought, "great, this makes my calculation work, this way I can build my house."