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This book (and the timeless way of building) were so important when we designed our house with our architect. Two points that have stuck with me in the decades
by gumby 2y ago
This book (and the timeless way of building) were so important when we designed our house with our architect.
Two points that have stuck with me in the decades since:
1- find the nicest place in your property and don’t build there
2- corridors are wasted space because you travel through them and don’t linger. In the end we had only one corridor like space, and it had glass walls on all sides (one side was doors open all summer) so you felt like you were outside, plus it expanded so there was a place to sit.
The two page chapter structure works well for this. The Society of Mind uses the same structure.
- MaXtreeM 2y agoMe and my wife also wanted to eliminate corridors as much as possible when we designed and discussed our house with an architect few years ago. Because of the property constraints and our other requirements about all of rooms we abandoned the idea of eliminating corridors and ended up with one long corridor through the middle of the house. After living in the house now for a few weeks we have no regrets - our son can run and ride in the corridor in the way he would not be able to otherwise and we found a way to decorate it that is quite pleasing. I am not saying that someone may be able to architect the house in other way to better use "wasted space" as you put it but we are very happy with our decision.