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rooms first, plan second

The design approach of perfecting each room individually before worrying about overall plan coherence.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Start with the most important room
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Early stage of building design, when the main volumes and positions are being determined.

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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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It is more important to get the rooms right, one by one, than it is to have a coherent 'plan'.claim0.803
A design principle that rejects plan-driven layout.
The room is to the house as the house is to the land.claim0.774
Analogy of scales of completion and unfolding.
Each room will most often be simple in shape, most often rectangular.claim0.760
Invariant of good rooms.
position of a roomconcept0.753
The location of a room within the building in relation to movement, light, and connection to the outdoors; the first stage of unfolding.
Rooms are given their life, first of all, by their position in the flow of movement, the light, and their connection with the outer world beyond the windows.claim0.749
The three most salient factors for room life.
main centers of a roomconcept0.738
The key interior centers—often near light and quiet from movement—that define the room's life.
When a room is not rectangular, it will usually be a rectangle modified by the addition or insertion of other centrally symmetric components.claim0.736
Refinement of the shape invariant.
Each room has four main stages to its unfolding: position, main centers, fine structure, tranquility.claim0.735
The structural thesis of the chapter.