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Ornament

Opening context:
Main Entrance, Building Edge, Roof Caps, Soft Inside Walls, Frames as Thickened Edges

Conflict

All people have the instinct to decorate their surroundings.

Resolution

Search around the building, and find those edges and transitions which need emphasis or extra binding energy.

Corners, places where materials meet, door frames, windows, main entrances, the place where one wall meets another, the garden gate, a fence — all these are natural places which call out for ornament.

Now find simple themes and apply the elements of the theme over and over again to the edges and boundaries which you decide to mark. Make the ornaments work as seams along the boundaries and edges so that they knit the two sides together and make them one.

Closing context:
Wall Membranes, Frames as Thickened Edges, Soft Inside Walls, Warm Colors, Things from Your Life