PRIVATE TERRACE ON THE STREET **

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Buildings: Important area or rooms in the house

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Problem The relationship of a house to a street is often confused: either the house opens entirely to the street and there is no privacy; or the house turns its back on the street, and communion with street life is lost.
Solution Let the common rooms open onto a wide terrace or a porch which looks into the street. Raise the terrace slightly above street level and protect it with a low wall, which you can see over if you sit near it, but which prevents people on the street from looking into the common rooms.
Select High Order Pattern and to it.   51 GREEN STREETS ** 100 PEDESTRIAN STREET ** 111 HALF-HIDDEN GARDEN * 129 COMMON AREAS AT THE HEART ** 142 SEQUENCE OF SITTING SPACES *	Select Low Order Pattern and to it. 163 OUTDOOR ROOM ** 169 TERRACED SLOPE * 173 GARDEN WALL * 193 HALF-OPEN WALL * 243 SITTING WALL **