129. Common Areas at the Heart

At the same time that common areas are to the front, make sure that they area also at the heart and soul of the activity, and that all paths between more orivate rooms pass tangent to the common ones - 129. Common Areas at the Heart. In private houses make the 130. Entrance Room the most formal and public place and arrange the most private areas so that each person has a room of his own, where he can retire to be a lone - 141. A Room of One's Own. Place bathing rooms and toilets half-way between the common areas and the private ones, so that people can reach them comfortably from both - 144. Bathing Room; and place sitting areas at all the different degrees of intimacy, and shape them according to their position in the gradient - 142. Sequence of Sitting Spaces. In offices put 149. Reception Welcomes You at the front of the gradient and 152. Half Private Office at the back...

Next pattern: 129. Common Areas At the Heart

... you have laid out, or already have, some kind of common area at the center of the building. In many cases, especially in houses, the heart of this common area is a kitchen or an eating area since shared food as more capcity than almost anything to be the basis for communal feelings -- 129. Common Area at the Heart, 147. Communal Eating. This pattern defines an ancient kind of kitchen where the cooking and the eating and the living are all in a single place.