5 Adaptive design emerging within the whole

In order to understand what looks right, feels right, is right on the floor, one can only judge by actually drawing on the floor, by changing and modifying the pieces and their shape and color, while one actually makes the floor. Scale, above all, is vital. The exact size of pieces matters and the right size only becomes clear when one is standing looking down at them. And, for a repetitive pattern, the way it looks at an angle as it disappears makes a sharp difference. Even twenty or thirty feet from where you are standing, what works and does not work are obvious — but entirely different from what one might have predicted on a drawing board sketch.

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