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The Sala house is a three-story tower approximately 20 feet by 20 feet in plan, crammed with smaller ordered spaces packed tightly without leftovers.

Demonstrates outward simplicity with dense internal packing at a small scale

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The idea that a building becomes more 'organic' if it has a more complex form, even when based on notions of the interior organization, is almost always wrong.
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Rejects the common assumption that organic architecture requires complex exterior forms

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Packing of Form
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The tight, neat arrangement of varied internal spaces within a simple exterior volume without leftovers; creates strong geometric form that is adapted and flexible

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