The nth Glass Box

Perhaps nothing is so self-evident as tectonics as a preservation strategy: The craft and integration of materials is what makes buildings and what ultimately saves buildings from a destiny of destruction. One can repair the building, rebuild the building, or encase the building in a protective shield, and it would be the specific way different materials are put together that really distinguishes the various preservation strategies that in the end, seeks to maintain the building in a certain desired configuration. In a museum, artifacts are put on display inside glass display shelves that preserves the physical form yet allows the visual form to be observed. That is, you can look but you can't touch. The glass box then has become the ideal way of preserving something as is, intact, for however length amount of time as long as the glass box is not destroyed. What about buildings? Well, apparently you can do that to, as is this pagoda in Seoul:

Though unless we want to block off entire cities in glass boxes, this strategy seems rather inefficient and expensive. What if we want to experience the building, full scale, and touch the building rather than just look at it from outside a glassbox? An interesting solution to this protection strategy can be seen from the Zuo Zheng Yuan in Suzhou, China, where the garden buildings were rebuilt with a built-in glassbox, as below:

As is evident from the above photo, the framed window becomes a strategy to protect the building in question. Previously, wood and paper filled in the decorative frames of the doorways / walls. During reconstruction, glass was used instead of wood and paper. Two reasons may be postulated. One, glass is more durable than wood or paper, increasing the lifetime of the building. Two, glass is clear and allows a visual connection to the interior that on the one hand, allows the building to be observed and understood in its totality while protecting the interior from intruders, and on the other, changes the function of the building from that shelters to that of a museum glass box, allowing numerous "exhibits" to take place inside its shelter. This integration of the building and the glass box meant to protect it into one tectonic whole seems to be a viable strategy in terms of preservation, insofar as it is meant to preserve an older way of living for future generation to observe as in a museum. The glass box has been addressed numerous time in architectural history, but never as a serious preservation strategy. Could the nth reworking of the old glass box concept be the new step towards tectonically saving a structure through material, function, and visual transparency maneuver integration? It sure does seem like an intriguing possibility.