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When designing a building or other environment, one has to deal with a huge number of often competing demands. These demans range from the practical needs of the people inhabiting the space to various goals to create a beautiful, uplifting and protective environment. The patterns in this category describe proven approaches to the task of organizing these needs and goals through the design process.
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Supporting Patterns | What are "patterns"? What role can they play in good architectural design? |
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 | The process of designing a building, space or structure typically consists of these design phases. It is important to understand and remind yourself of these phases, to bear in mind exactly what you're trying to accomplish. And it does take time. |
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 | Having an understanding of universal design principles in your "design toolbox" can help in framing and responding to a wide variety of design problems. The patterns in this category can be applied to a variety of situations, and are often form the basis of patterns in many of the other categories. |
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