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Pattern Number: 192Pattern Title: Windows Overlooking Life
Category: Buildings
Sub-Category: Fine tune the shape and size of rooms and alcoves
Up links: 159 Light on Two Sides of Every Room 190 Ceiling Height Variety 191 The Shape of Indoor Space
Horizontal links:
Down links: 221 Natural Doors and Windows 239 Small Panes 222 Low Sill 223 Deep Reveals
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Summaries of content, keywords and links generated by algorithms. Thank you smmry.com:
Summary 1: In each room, place the windows in such a way that their total area conforms roughly to the appropriate figures for your region, and place them in positions which give the best possible views out over life: activities in streets, quiet gardens, anything different from the indoor scene.
Summary 2: Thomas Markus presents evidence which shows clearly that office workers prefer windows with meaningful views - views of city life, nature - as against views which also take in large areas, but contain uninteresting and less meaningful elements.
Summary 3: We now give very rough figures for the total area of the windows in a room.
Summary 4: In each case, measure the window area as a percentage of the floor area; then take the average of the different percentages.
Summary 5: In our part of the world - Berkeley, California - we find that rooms are most pleasant when they have about 25 per cent window - sometimes as much as 50 per cent -.
Summary 6: Fine tune the exact positions of the windows at the time that you build them - NATURAL DOORS AND WINDOWS; break the area of each window into SMALL PANES; give each window a very LOW SILL to improve the view and DEEP REVEALS to make the light as soft as possible inside.....
Keywords: window room view area light
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