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129 Common Areas at the Heart

May be part of Intimacy Gradient (127), Indoor Sunlight (128), Cascade of Roofs (116), Farmhouse Kitchen (139), Communal Eating (147).

Conflict

No social group- whether a family, a work group, or a school group- can survive without constant informal contact among its members.

Resolution

Create a single common area for every social group. Locate it at the center of gravity of all the spaces the group occupies, and in such a way that the paths which go in and out of the building lie tangent to it.

May contain The Fire (181), Sequence of Sitting Spaces (142), The Flow through Rooms (131), Short Passages (132), The Shape of Indoor Space (191).