tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post120233406118735392..comments2023-10-26T04:38:06.297-04:00Comments on TeachPaperless: Homebases of LearningAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091328599818819777noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-92044246413767085872009-06-30T20:35:02.256-04:002009-06-30T20:35:02.256-04:00That home base idea, and the question of architect...That home base idea, and the question of architecture, is also written into Christopher Alexander's Patterns of Architecture, in which he outlines 271 rules for building better buildings, in more quality-driven urban planning. While I don't have The Timeless Way of Building with me, or A Pattern Language, some of the rules are second-nature to me now (as opposed to second life... and the SL and QA people would do well to look at them...)<br /><br />• A mixture of indoor and outdoor spaces<br />• Outdoor Rooms<br />• steps for sitting<br />• high places<br />• something roughly in the middle<br />• Open plazas<br />• quiet backs <br />• pedestrian <br />• places of learning<br />• children everywhere<br /><br />All of these patterns are visible in your campus, even as briefly and as spartanly as you have described it. All of them are clearly absent from your sisters' school.<br /><br />My high school was similarly a place of beauty and elegance. My current school is closer to my high school in feel than to your sisters' school, but to the degree that it does not follow Alexander's rules - it is also brutal and fortified.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com