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Seek to connect indoor and outdoor spaces by as many of these methods as possible. Your goal should be for the whole site, not just the building placed on the site, to form part of the environment that the occupants inhabit.
A building should seem to grow out of the site, and become an integral part of the site.
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Supporting Patterns  | Extending enclosure planes - walls, ceilings, floor - beyond a window helps to disolve the boundary between indoors and outdoors. This also helps to extend the psychological space. |
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 | Seek to blur the lines between indoor and outdoor spaces by structuring site not as a single monolithic building on a peice of land, but as an intricate patchwork of indoor and outdoor spaces. This can be accomplished with outbuildings, courtyards, and wings. |
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 | Often, the transition between indoors and outdoors is made too abrupt. This makes the indoors and outdoors less integrated.
Create spaces that are somewhere between indoors and outdoors, such a porches or breezeways.
Locate these spaces where they will be easily accessed, somewhere that people can pause and feel both connected to the indoors and outdoors of the building. ... |
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