The low eave of the roof (7 m height for 2.5 stories) creates comfortable human scale and positive feeling in the narrow lanes.

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• A successful large building will always show subtle syncopation of regularity combined with gentle accommodation to the land, with a continuous range of scales down to the most intimate details.claim0.743
  Summary of the geometric invariants that result from living process in large buildings.
• Summer in Japan is hot and sticky; cross ventilation is easily achieved with shallow 6 m deep apartments.claim0.743
  Functional benefit of the narrow building footprint.
• To have levels of scale, the jumps between different scales must not be too great; a jump of 2000:1 is far too great to form a nice chain of levels; jumps of roughly 2:1 to 4:1 are most effectiveclaim0.734
  Quantitative constraint on the levels of scale property: centers are most helpful when size ratios are moderate; centers less than one-tenth the size of a larger one are less likely to help it
• At West Dean, the columns that felt best in full-scale cardboard experiments had capitals at head height (c. 1.70m), rising to c. 2.10m at arch midpoint — far lower than initially expected.finding0.734
  Empirical finding from full-scale on-site testing: the correct proportions for intimacy were discovered through experiment, not calculation.
• Top 8 rated housing desires by 100 families: (1) private garden, (2) low-rise, (3) user design, (4) low-traffic street, (5) more sunshine, (6) park near house, (7) direct entrance, (8) nearby small shopsfinding0.732
  Independent rating by families of what they want most.
• Each of the four examples (doll, Julian Street Inn, West Dean bench, Linz alcoves) has the minimal structure for its situation that carries weight of feeling.claim0.732
• The unexpectedly low, squat columns at West Dean, with capitals at head height, create intimacy because they are in a position where you can touch them, smell them, and see them right in front of your nose.claim0.729
  Alexander's explanation of why the apparently insane column proportions produced the correct being-nature for the building.
• The more austere forms of buildings also arise from the wholeness that comes from buildings that are near rectangular, to make positive space.claim0.727