BUILDING COMPLEX **

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Buildings: Group configuration

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Problem A building cannot be a human building unless it is a complex of still smaller buildings or smaller parts which manifest its own internal social facts.
Solution Never build large monolithic buildings. Whenever possible translate your building program into a building complex, whose parts manifest the actual social facts of the situation. At low densities, a building complex may take the form of a collection of small buildings connected by arcades, paths, bridges, shared gardens, and walls. At higher densities, a single building can be treated as a building complex, if its important parts are picked out and made identifiable while still part of one three-dimensional fabric. Even a small building, a house for example, can be conceived as a "building complex" - perhaps part of it is higher than the rest with wings and an adjoining cottage.
Select High Order Pattern and to it.   96 NUMBER OF STORIES *	Select Low Order Pattern and to it.   98 CIRCULATION REALMS **   99 MAIN BUILDING * 104 SITE REPAIR ** 105 SOUTH FACING OUTDOORS ** 107 WINGS OF LIGHT ** 109 LONG THIN HOUSE * 110 MAIN ENTRANCE ** 119 ARCADES ** 122 BUILDING FRONTS * 205 STRUCTURE FOLLOWS SOCIAL SPACES **