The invention pertains to hermetically sealed glass using vacuum technology to remove still air, preventing the infiltration and exfiltration of heat through the installed glass in a modern window and/or door system composed of vinyl, wood, or other readily available substrate, thereby minimizing the negative impact of heat loss through the outer edges of the hermetically sealed glass, while also applying lengths of hollow vinyl, solid wood, or other readily available substrates to the exposed portions of the hermetically sealed glass to give the appearance of a window/door utilizing multiple single pieces of glass.

A door for a building exterior may include a glass assembly having a height and a depth and a plurality of glass lateral edges, a wood panel, the wood panel being laterally coplanar with and having a same height and depth as the glass assembly, the wood panel having a plurality of wood lateral edges, and a frame that surrounds the glass lateral edges and the wood lateral edges. The frame includes an interior-facing leg, configured to extend from one of the plurality of lateral edges toward an interior portion of the glass assembly and a lateral leg having a lateral leg thickness and orthogonally extending from an edge of the interior-facing leg and facing the lateral edges of the glass assembly and the wood panel, the frame configured so that the lateral leg thickness is the only visible part of the frame when viewed from the building exterior.

A door for a building exterior may include a glass assembly having a height and a depth and a plurality of glass lateral edges, a wood panel, the wood panel being laterally coplanar with and having a same height and depth as the glass assembly, the wood panel having a plurality of wood lateral edges, and a frame that surrounds the glass lateral edges and the wood lateral edges. The frame includes an interior-facing leg, configured to extend from one of the plurality of lateral edges toward an interior portion of the glass assembly and a lateral leg having a lateral leg thickness and orthogonally extending from an edge of the interior-facing leg and facing the lateral edges of the glass assembly and the wood panel, the frame configured so that the lateral leg thickness is the only visible part of the frame when viewed from the building exterior.

A fenestration system includes opposing first and second rigid components, a gasket interposing the first and second rigid components, the gasket being made of an electrically-conductive material and exhibiting a baseline resistance when arranged between the first and second rigid components, and a control system communicably coupled to the gasket with one or more wires and operable to monitor a real-time resistance of the gasket and generate a signal when the real-time resistance deviates from the baseline resistance.

A fenestration system includes opposing first and second rigid components, a gasket interposing the first and second rigid components, the gasket being made of an electrically-conductive material and exhibiting a baseline resistance when arranged between the first and second rigid components, and a control system communicably coupled to the gasket with one or more wires and operable to monitor a real-time resistance of the gasket and generate a signal when the real-time resistance deviates from the baseline resistance.