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Common Areas at the Heart

Opening context:
Intimacy Gradient, Indoor Sunlight, Cascade of Roofs, Farmhouse Kitchen, Communal Eating

Conflict

No social group — whether a family, a work group, or a school group — can survive without constant informal contact among its members.

Resolution

Create a single common area for every social group. Locate it at the center of gravity of all the spaces the group occupies, and in such a way that the paths which go in and out of the building lie tangent to it.

Closing context:
The Fire, Sequence of Sitting Spaces, The Flow through Rooms, Short Passages, The Shape of Indoor Space