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Pattern Number: 132

Pattern Title: Short Passages

Category: Buildings

Sub-Category: Gradients and connection of space

Up links: 131 the Flow Through Rooms 101 Building Thoroughfare 98 Circulation Realms 101 Building Thoroughfare 131 the Flow Through Rooms

Horizontal links: 152 Half-private office 183 Workspace Enclosure

Down links: 159 Light on Two Sides of Every Room 179 Alcoves 180 Window Place 197 Thick Walls 198 Closets Between Rooms 163 Outdoor Room 166 Gallery Surround 222 Low Sill 194 Interior Windows 237 Solid Doors with Glass 191 The Shape of Indoor Space

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

Summary 1: THE FLOW THROUGH ROOMS describes the generosity of light and movement in the way that rooms connect to one another and recommends against the use of passages.

Summary 2: When there has to be a passage in an office or a house and when it is too small to be a BUILDING THOROUGHFARE, it must be treated very specially, as if it were itself a room.

Summary 3: The ugly long repetitive corridors of the machine age have so far infected the word "Corridor" that it is hard to imagine that a corridor could ever be a place of beauty, a moment in your passage from room to room, which means as much as all the moments you spend in the rooms themselves.

Summary 4: The second issue is the relation of the passage to the rooms which open off it.

Summary 5: Put in windows, bookshelves, and furnishings to make them as much like actual rooms as possible, with alcoves, seats along the edge - LIGHT ON TWO SIDES OF EVERY ROOM, ALCOVES, WINDOW PLACE, THICK WALLS, CLOSETS BETWEEN ROOMS; open up the long side into the garden or out onto balconies - OUTDOOR ROOM, GALLERY SURROUND, LOW SILL.

Summary 6: Make interior windows between the passage and the rooms which open off it - INTERIOR WINDOWS, SOLID DOORS WITH GLASS..

Keywords: room passage corridor long window

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