rectangular room

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

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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chapter

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

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

When a room is not rectangular, it will usually be a rectangle modified by the addition or insertion of other centrally symmetric components.claim0.808
Refinement of the shape invariant.
position of a roomconcept0.796
The location of a room within the building in relation to movement, light, and connection to the outdoors; the first stage of unfolding.
public living roomconcept0.775
A hull of public space treated as an outdoor room for the entire community, where people feel at home and want to be.
main centers of a roomconcept0.767
The key interior centers—often near light and quiet from movement—that define the room's life.
room as sanctification and illumination of a lifeconcept0.763
The idea that a room is the physical embodiment and receptacle of a person's life, joys, and sorrows.
In principle, a room is the sanctification and illumination of a life.quote0.755
Distills the philosophical purpose of a room.
In principle, a room is the sanctification and illumination of a life. It is your life made manifest.claim0.750
Philosophical definition of a room's purpose.
What makes a good room?question0.749
Opening question of the chapter.