Six space set 1 - Prologue - Le Personal Notes

Centric -

• Centre space as the main point of entrance & exit, also allowing movement to consecutive rooms.
• Note that It consist of only singular volume, which is only connected by a single space.
• Usually the furnitures are always arranged along the walls.

Courtyard -

• also known as ATRIUM.
• One of the components of centric.
• "...An enclosed area, often a space enclosed by a building that is open to the sky... Primary meeting space..."
• Open area, rarely enclosed.
• functions similar to centric space.
• Every rooms are connected with the courtyard itself
• sometimes functions as garden, allowing sunlight

Cloister -

• " A rectangular open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries, with open arcade on the inner side..."
• "...a quadrilateral enclosure..."
• centre space is inaccessible, and surrounded by walk paths.
• a radial spinal space, taken a spinal space and linked the pathway from the other end to another.

Linear -

• a single straight forward linear motion
• Single volume
• Long & narrow
• rectangular
• sometimes, bathrooms are partially enclosed

Spinal -

• addition of branches to the existing linear space
• not in a single volume, thus partitions needed to divide spaces

Serial Progression -

• The serial idea is build upon the sense of progression that often characterizes the experience of linear space..."
• "...scallop shell, chank shell, spray of fresia, pine cone..."
• addition of gradual increase/decrease space branches to the existing linear space
• series of rooms connected in different volumes

(sources are from: Purves Patterns & Neille Ramblers )