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A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 18h

121 - Path Shape *

Streets should be for staying in, and not just for moving through, the way they are today.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 1d

181 - The Fire *

There is no substitute for fire.

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A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 2d

226 - Column Place *

Thin columns, spindly columns, columns which take their shape from structural arguments alone, will never make a comfortable environment.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 3d

246 - Climbing Plants

A building finally becomes a part of its surroundings when the plants grow over parts of it as freely as they grow along the ground.

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A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 4d

173 - Garden Wall *

Gardens and small public parks don't give enough relief from noise unless they are well protected.

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15 - Neighborhood Boundary *

The strength of the boundary is essential to a neighborhood. If the boundary is too weak the neighborhood will not be able to maintain its own identifiable character.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 6d

81 - Small Services Without Red Tape *

Departments and public services don't work if they are too large. When theyare large, their human qualities vanish; they become bureaucratic; red tape takes over.

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A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 7d

110 - Main Entrance **

Placing the main entrance (or main entrances) is perhaps the single most important step you take during the evolution of a building plan.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 8d

41 - Work Community **

If you spend eight hours of your day at work, and eight hours at home, there is no reason why your workplace should be any less of a community than your home.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 9d

you what to do to make a built-in seat that really works.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 9d

202 - Built-in Seats *

Built-in seats are great. Everybody loves them. They make a building feel comfortable and luxurious. But most often they do not actually work. They are placed wrong, or too narrow, or the back does not slope, or the view is wrong, or the seat is too hard. This pattern tells

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A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 10d

28 - Eccentric Nucleus *

The random character of local densities confuses the identity of our communities, and also creates a chaos in the pattern of land use.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 11d

226 - Column Place *

Thin columns, spindly columns, columns which take their shape from structural arguments alone, will never make a comfortable environment.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 12d

161 - Sunny Place **

The area immediately outside the building, to the south - that angle between its walls and the earth where the sun falls - must be developed and made into a place which lets people bask in it.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 13d

their property and move because they cannot afford the upkeep of so big a place.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 13d

153 - Rooms to Rent

Very simply, when a family or a workgroup shrinks because one or two people leave, the space which becomes empty should be able to find a use. Otherwise, the people who stay behind will rattle around in a hollow shell which is too big for them. They may even be forced to sell

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A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 14d

45 - Necklace of Community Projects

The local town hall will not be an honest part of the community which lives around it, unIess it is itself surrounded by all kinds of small community activities and projects, generated by the people for themselves.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 15d

230 - Radiant Heat *

This pattern is a biologically precise formulation of the intuition that sunlight and a hot blazing fire are the best kinds of heat.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 16d

101 - Building Thoroughfare

When a public building complex cannot be completely served by outdoor pedestrian streets, a new form of indoor street, quite different from the conventional corridor, is needed.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 17d

231 - Dormer Windows *

We know from our discussion of Sheltering Roof (117) that the top story of the building should be right inside the roof, surrounded by it.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 18d

190 - Ceiling Height Variety **

A building in which the ceiling heights are all the same is virtually incapable of making people comfortable.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 19d

130 - Entrance Room **

Arriving in a building, or leaving it, you need a room to pass through, both inside the building and outside it. This is the entrance room.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 20d

life, he once again steps through the church.

A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 20d

66 - Holy Ground *

What is a church or temple? It is a place of worship, spirit, contemplation, of course. But above all, from a human point of view, it is a gateway. A person comes into the world through the church. He leaves it through the church. And, at each of the important thresholds of his

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A Pattern Language Bot @aplbot.bsky.social · 21d

125 - Stair Seats *

Wherever there is action in a place, the spots which are the most inviting, are those high enough to give people a vantage point, and low enough to put them in action.

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