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Pattern Number: 150Pattern Title: A Place to Wait
Category: Buildings
Sub-Category: The most important areas and rooms (in offices, workshops and public buildings)
Up links: 34 Interchange 47 Health Center 81 Small Services without Red Tape 82 Office Connections
Horizontal links:
Down links: 164 Street Windows 180 Window Place 88 Street Cafe 165 Opening to the Street 176 Garden Seat 94 Sleeping in Public 71 Still Water 159 Light on Two Sides of Every Room 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: In any office, or workshop, or public service, or station, or clinic, where people have to wait - INTERCHANGE, HEALTH CENTER, SMALL SERVICES WITHOUT RED TAPE, OFFICE CONNECTIONS, it is essential to provide a special place for waiting, and doubly essential that this place not have the sordid, enclosed, time-slowed character of ordinary waiting rooms.
Summary 2: In places where people end up waiting, create a situation which makes the waiting positive.
Summary 3: Fuse the waiting with some other activity - newspaper, coffee, pool tables, horseshoes; something which draws people in who are not simply waiting.
Summary 4: On the one hand, whatever people are waiting for - the doctor, an airplane, a business appointment - has built in uncertainties, which make it inevitable that they must spend a long time hanging around, waiting, doing nothing.
Summary 5: How can the people who are waiting, spend their time wholeheartedly - live the hours or minutes while they wait, as fully as the other hours of their day - and yet still be on hand, whenever the event or the person they are waiting for is ready?.
Summary 6: The right atmosphere will come naturally if the waiting area provides some places that are quiet, protected, and do not draw out the anxiety of the wait..
Keywords: wait people place room seat
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