David Pearson, in The New Natural House Book. makes these points about spacing designing:

• A house is not just a collection of rooms
• Think of "activities" and "processe".
• Think of "hygene" not just kitchen and bathoom.
• Think of "sleeping peacefully" not just bedroom.
• Well being, safety from accidents, security and "health space" are key concepts.
• Linking indoors with outdoors -- transition spaces.
• Comforts instead of ight, heat, AC and ventilation.
• Orientation to sun and shade.
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See Page 186 and following for some good examples. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-New-Natural-House-Book/David-Pearson/e/9780684847337/



On kitchens:

" .... at once they found themsleves in all the glow of a large fire-lit tchen. The floor was well-worn red brick, and on the wide hearth burnt a fire of logs. .... Rows of spotless plates winked for the shelves of the dresser at the far end of the room and from the rafters overhead hang hams, bundles of dried herbs, nets of onions and baskets of eggs."

Badger's kitchen in The Wind in the Willows by Ken Grahame
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