130. Entrance Room**
...the position and overall shape of entrances is given by 102. Family of Entrances, 110. Main Entrance and 112. Entrance Transition. This pattern gives the entrances their detailed shape, their shape and body and three dimensions, and helps complete the form begun by 113. Car Connection, and the 140. Private Terrace on the Street.
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.
At the main entrance to a building, make a light-filled room which marks the entrance and straddles the boundary between indoors and outdoors, covering some space outdoors and some space indoors. The outside part may be like an old-fashioned porch; the inside like a hall or sitting room.
Give that part of the entrance which sticks out into the street or garden a physical character which, sa far as possible, make it one of the family of entrances along the street -- 102. Family of Entrances where it is appropriate, make it a porch -- 166. Gallery Surround; and include a bench or seat, where people can watch the world go by or wait for someone -- 242. Front Door Bench. As for the indoor part of the entrance room, above all make sure that it is filled with light from two or even three sides, so that the first impression of the building is of light -- 135. Tapestry of Light and Dark, 159. Light on Two Sides of Every Room. Put windows in the door itself -- 237. Solid Doors With Glass. Put in 202. Built-in Seats and make the room part of the 142. Sequence of Sitting Spaces; provide a 201. Waist-High Shelf for packages. And finally, for the overall shape of the entrance room and its construction, begin with 191. The Shape of Indoor Space...
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110. Main Entrance**
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If possible, make the entrance one of a family of similar entrances, so that they all stand out as visibly as possible within the street or building complex -- 102. Family of Entrances; build that part of the entrance which sticks out, as a room, large enough to be plesant, light, and beautiful place -- 130. Entrance Room and bring the path between the street and this entrance room thruough a series of transitions of light and level and view -- 112. Entrance Transition. Make sure that the entrance has the proper relationship to parking -- 97. Shielded Parking, 113. Car Connection.
127. Intimacy Gradient
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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...
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