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This is important because it strongly affects the interpretations people put on the place: whether designers want them to or not, people will interpret places as having meanings. When these meanings support responsiveness, the place has a quality we call visual appropriateness.
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by supporting its legibility, in terms of form by supporting its variety. by supporting its robustness, at both large and use small scales.
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One group may pay a great deal of attention to proportions, and to overall visual structure; whilst another may depend on more detailed cues: similarity in window and door design.
The detailed appearance of the place must help people read the pattern of uses it contains.
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The appearance the buildings mustof helpdetailed variety to happen, byofmaking the image the area seem appropriate as a setting for each of the uses concerned.
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A Building’s detailed appearance must
reinforce this potential, by looking appropriate for all these uses.
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It considered ways of designing particular spaces within a building, or out of doors, so they could be used in a range of different ways.
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We must understand how people interpret places.
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People interpret visual cues as having particular meanings because they have learned to do so’. But people do not learn in a social
vacuum. A great deal of learning, both formal and informal, is shared. by groups of people; whose members will therefore tend to make similar interpretations of a given place.
But members of different social groups may well make different interpretations of the same place. This happens for two main reasons: •
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their environmental experience differs from that of other groups. their objectives differ from those of other groups’
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The remaining decisions in ways which increase the variety of sense-experiences which users can enjoy. We call this quality richness. For richness, we must design these to offer sensory choice. This implies designing so that people can choose different sense-experiences on different occasions.
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- Sense of motion - Sense of smell
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The visual monotony of many recent environments is now widely recognized, so designers' and patrons' attitudes are changing. But after fifty years of neglect, the principles of designing for visual richness have been forgotten. With no principles to go on, designers can only base their work on examples of richness from the past.
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the range of distances from which the various parts of the sc heme can be seen. the relative numbers of people likely to see the building from each different viewing position.
theexperienced. length of time during which each view will be
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to improve practical facilities.
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as an affirmation of their own tastes and values: affirmative personalization because they perceive its existing image as inappropriate: remedial personalization
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The way this claim is controlled particularly by the building's owner , has radical effects on whether and how personalization takes place. The balance of power between user and owner is set by the tenure system:
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People mainly personalize places they regularly use for long periods: in practice, homes and workplaces. Nearly all buildings, at least in part, contain either homes or workplaces, or may do so in the future.
This means that the technology of the design should be well-matched to the expertise of the likely users. Since expertise is hard to predict, it is best to use materials and techniques which unskilled people can easily master, at least where personalization is most likely.
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The physical elements supporting personalization within a space consist of internal surfaces and focal elements.
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Some personalization communicates across the private/public boundary, affecting the public realm.
