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Each room will most often be simple in shape, most often rectangular.

Invariant of good rooms.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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rectangular room
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The typical simple shape of a well-functioning room; the starting point for most good rooms.

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Chapter 13: How Living Process Generates The Character Of Rooms
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This chapter describes how living process unfolds to create rooms with life, covering position, main centers, fine structure, and tranquility.

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When a room is not rectangular, it will usually be a rectangle modified by the addition or insertion of other centrally symmetric components.claim0.869
Refinement of the shape invariant.
The room sticks out and claims a substantial part of the perimeter, beginning to shape the building around the room.claim0.830
How a room's need for light and view determines the building envelope.
The main room of a building—in size, position, light, volume, character, and structure—must be unforgettable.claim0.790
Rule for the most important room.
It is more important to get the rooms right, one by one, than it is to have a coherent 'plan'.claim0.786
A design principle that rejects plan-driven layout.
Each room has four main stages to its unfolding: position, main centers, fine structure, tranquility.claim0.786
The structural thesis of the chapter.
The living room will work well, only when it is so shaped that the centers (core resting place, window place, etc.) are really strong and have life in themselves.claim0.785
Practical design rule: comfort arises from the geometry of strong centers.
All parts of the unfolded public space are shaped, fashioned, treated, as if each were a kind of larger living room.claim0.781
Description of the human quality of unfolded public spaces.
It is, above all, the light and relation to movement and relation to the whole which give quality and character to a room.quote0.778
Summarizes the three primary determinants of room life.