SESSION 5 Outdoor spaces, doors, windows and ornament

Outdoor positive spaces

Doors and windows

Ornament

... Definition of a center The evolution of a design in your mind's eye, through centers

The small-house design process has five main phases Session 1: Set garden position, house position, and living room Session 2: Define house volume and the inside of the living room Session 3: Place walls, entrance, roof: the substance of the building Session 4: Establish building structure Session 5: Fix outdoor spaces, doors, windows and ornament Each of these phases is long enough for a single session. You should complete a session, then have a rest, before you start another session. Session 5: Fix outdoor spaces, doors, windows and ornament Steps Action Notes Step 5a If you check all the outdoor areas around the house, are they all positive: entrance path, terrace, garden,.. is it true that each one is as positive and room-like as you can make it? Make every outdoor area around the house a positive center. Step 5b Is the pattern of the windows beautiful from the inside of every room, and beautiful as a whole from the outside, and does every window have a pleasing pattern in itself? Make all windows and doors positive centers, and make each bit of wall between the windows a positive center, too. Step 5c Does the house have a kind of ornament which makes you happy, and joyful, in a way that completes it and makes it a work of art? Make centers where they are missing -- whether color, shape, or carving, or line -- and call these ornament This completes Session 5 Back to session 4 l Go to finish