Titles and categories scraped by algorithm from on-line sources:

Pattern Number: 129

Pattern Title: Common Areas at the Heart

Category: Buildings

Sub-Category: Gradients and connection of space

Up links: 127 Intimacy Gradient 128 Indoor Sunlight

Horizontal links:

Down links: 139 Farmhouse Kitchen 147 Communal Eating 181 The Fire 159 Light on Two Sides of Every Room 191 The Shape of Indoor Space 142 Sequence of Sitting Spaces 163 Outdoor Room 119 Arcades 131 the Flow Through Rooms 132 Short Passages

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Summaries of content, keywords and links generated by algorithms. Thank you smmry.com:

Summary 1: For a low-income Peruvian family, the family room is the heart of family life.

Summary 2: The family room functions as the heart of the family life by helping to support these processes.

Summary 3: The part of the room for the TV set is often darkened; the family room and the TV function just as much during midday as they do at night.

Summary 4: The only balanced situation is the one where a common path, which people use every day, runs tangent to the common areas and is open to them in passing.

Summary 5: For the shape of the common area in fine detail, see LIGHT ON TWO SIDES OF EVERY ROOM and THE SHAPE OF INDOOR SPACE.

Summary 6: Make the paths properly tangent to the common areas - ARCADES, THE FLOW THROUGH ROOMS, SHORT PASSAGES.....

Keywords: room area common family group

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