📓 common areas at the heart.md by @flancian ☆

a [[pattern]]
- in [[a pattern language]]
  - #129
  - [[prev]] [[intimacy gradient]] [[indoor sunlight]] [[cadcade of roofs]]
  - [[next]] [[farmhouse kitchen]] [[communal eating]] [[the fire]] [[light on two sides of every room]] [[the shape of indoor space]] [[sequence of sitting spaces]] [[outdoor room]] [[arcades]] [[the flow through rooms]] [[short passages]]
- "the only balanced situation is the one where a common path, which people use every day, runs tangent to the common areas and is open to them in passing."
  - this way people can easily stop as they go about with their day but are not forced to stop.