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Building / Environment Uses
This category contains patterns related to specific types of buildings, public spaces and other types of built environments.
Supporting Patterns
This category contains building types that are used primarily as a place for conducting business, including offices and factories.
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For more information and patterns related to communities as a whole, see the section on creating thriving communities.
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This category contains patterns related to parks, yards and other outdoor environments of various sizes.
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Mixed use buildings combine several unreleated or loosely related building uses into one building. For example, consider a building that contains retail and restaurant space at the ground floor, office space above, and residential units above that. By not being devoted to a single use, these buildings bring more varied and interesting life. They also create the opportunity for people to live ...
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This category contains buildings that are open to the general public, such as libraries, theaters and some government buildings.
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This category contains patterns specific to designing residential buildings of various types, including both single-family homes and multi-family housing complexes.
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This category contains structures related to movement between buildings and communities, such as bridges, roads and mass transit systems.
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