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95 Building Complex

May be part of Number of Stories (96).

Conflict

A building cannot be a human building unless it is a complex of still smaller buildings or smaller parts which manifest its own internal social facts.

Resolution

Never build large monolithic buildings. Whenever possible translate your building program into a building complex, whose parts manifest the actual social facts of the situation. At low densities, a building complex may take the form of a collection of small buildings connected by arcades, paths, bridges, shared gardens, and walls.

At higher densities, a single building can be treated as a building complex, if its important parts are picked out and made identifiable while still part of one three-dimensional fabric.

Even a small building, a house for example, can be conceived as a building complex- perhaps part of it is higher than the rest with wings and an adjoining cottage.

May contain Long Thin House (109), Building Fronts (122), Circulation Realms (98), Structure Follows Social Spaces (205), South Facing Outdoors (105).