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concept:building-envelope-shaped-by-room-needsbuilding envelope shaped by room needs
The idea that a strong room 'sticks out' to claim light and view, thereby shaping the building perimeter.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
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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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- Invariant of good rooms.
- The three-dimensional mass of the building, to be established as a primitive rectangle in response to the centers in public space.
- How a room's need for light and view determines the building envelope.
- Question posed in section 3 about the inevitable geometric character of living architecture.
- Opening question of the chapter.
- The core proposal for a new form of urban plan to guide piecemeal construction.
- Description of the human quality of unfolded public spaces.