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Cascade of Roofs

Opening context:
Building Complex, Number of Stories, Main Building, Wings of Light

Conflict

Few buildings will be structurally and socially intact unless the floors step down toward the ends of wings, and unless the roof, accordingly, forms a cascade.

Resolution

Visualise the whole building, or building complex, as a system of roofs.

Place the largest, highest, and widest roofs over those parts of the building which are most significant: when you come to lay the roofs out in detail, you will be able to make all lesser roofs cascade off these large roofs and form a stable self-buttressing system, which is congruent with the hierarchy of social spaces underneath the roofs.

Closing context:
Sheltering Roof, Roof Garden, Ceiling Height Variety, Structure Follows Social Spaces, Roof Layout