A Pattern Language Bot

91 - Travelers Inn *

A man who stays the night in a strange place is still a member of the human community, and still needs company. There is no reason why he should creep into a hole, and watch TV alone, the way he does in a roadside motel.

194 - Interior Windows

Windows are most often used to create connections between the indoor and the outdoors. But there are many cases when an indoor space needs a connecting window to another indoor space.

because the different agencies in charge of various forms of public transportation have no incentives to connect to one another.

16 - Web of Public Transportation *

The system of public transportation - the entire web of airplanes, helicopters, hovercraft, trains, boats, ferries, buses, taxis, mini-trains, carts, ski-lifts, moving sidewalks - can only work if all the parts are well connected. But they usually aren't,

201 - Waist-High Shelf

In every house and every workplace there is a daily "traffic" of the objects which are handled most. Unless such things are immediately at hand, the flow of life is awkward, full of mistakes; things are forgotten, misplaced.

127 - Intimacy Gradient **

Unless the spaces in a building are arranged in a sequence which corresponds to their degrees of privateness, the visits made by strangers, friends, guests, clients, family, will always be a little awkward.

180 - Window Place **

Everybody loves window seats, bay windows, and big windows with low sills and comfortable chairs drawn up to them.

124 - Activity Pockets **

The life of a public square forms naturally around its edge. If the edge fails, then the space never becomes lively.

190 - Ceiling Height Variety **

A building in which the ceiling heights are all the same is virtually incapable of making people comfortable.

54 - Road Crossing

Where paths cross roads, the cars have power to frighten and subdue the people walking, even when the people walking have the legal right-of-way.

7 - The Countryside *

I conceive that land belongs for use to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless members are still unborn. - a Nigerian tribesman

80 - Self-Governing Workshops and Offices **

No one enjoys his work if he is a cog in a machine.

49 - Looped Local Roads **

Nobody wants fast through traffic going by their homes.

137 - Children's Realm

If children do not have space to release a tremendous amount of energy when they need to, they will drive themselves and everybody else in the family up the wall.

their property and move because they cannot afford the upkeep of so big a place.

153 - Rooms to Rent

Very simply, when a family or a workgroup shrinks because one or two people leave, the space which becomes empty should be able to find a use. Otherwise, the people who stay behind will rattle around in a hollow shell which is too big for them. They may even be forced to sell

218 - Wall Membrane *

In organic construction the walls must take their share of the loads. They must work continuously with the structure on all four of their sides; and act to resist shear and bending, and take loads in compression.

14 - Indentifiable Neighborhood **

People need an identifiable spatial unit to belong to.

228 - Stair Vault *

Within a building technology which uses compressive materials as much as possible, and excludes the use of wood, it is natural to build stairs over a vaulted void, simply to save weight and materials.

124 - Activity Pockets **

The life of a public square forms naturally around its edge. If the edge fails, then the space never becomes lively.

you what to do to make a built-in seat that really works.

202 - Built-in Seats *

Built-in seats are great. Everybody loves them. They make a building feel comfortable and luxurious. But most often they do not actually work. They are placed wrong, or too narrow, or the back does not slope, or the view is wrong, or the seat is too hard. This pattern tells

15 - Neighborhood Boundary *

The strength of the boundary is essential to a neighborhood. If the boundary is too weak the neighborhood will not be able to maintain its own identifiable character.

135 - Tapestry of Light and Dark *

In a building with uniform light level, there are few "places" which function as effective settings for human events. This happens because, to a large extent, the places which make effective settings are defined by light.

76 - House for a Small Family *

In a house for a small family, it is the relationship between children and adults which is most critical.

21 - Four-Story Limit **

There is abundant evidence to show that high buildings make people crazy.

186 - Communal Sleeping

In many traditional and primitive cultures, sleep is a communal activity without the sexual overtones it has in the West today. We believe that it may be a vital social function, which plays a role as fundamental and as necessary to people as communal eating.

19 - Web of Shopping *

Shops rarely place themselves in those positions which best serve the people's needs, and also guarantee their own stability.

184 - Cooking Layout *

Cooking is uncomfortable if the kitchen counter is too short and also if it is too long.

234 - Lapped Outside Walls

The main function of a building's outside wall is to keep weather out. It can only do this if the materials are joined in such a way that they cooperate to make impervious joints.