1 What makes a good room?

When we are indoors, most of the time we are in a room. The peacefulness, the ordinary comfort you feel, your ability to work, to love, to be well — these are all affected by the calmness and beauty of the room in which you are. You could reasonably say, therefore, that the rooms where we spend our time, the character of these rooms represents the single most important thing about the built environment. The environment affects us, and it is perhaps through our rooms that is does the most.

4 main stages of unfolding rooms

1. Position
2. Contents (main centers)
3. Fine structure (smaller centers)
4. Tranquility

Each room has four main stages to its unfolding. The first concerns its position, the second concerns its contents and main centers, the third concerns its fine structure (its smaller centers), the fourth concerns its tranquility. In a room where true unfolding occurs, these four stages will give the room its life.

#book/The Nature of Order/3 A Vision of a Living World/13 The Character of Rooms#