When thinking about designing a winter retreat for writers the article A Pattern Of Language was very helpful in supplying ideas for my design proposal. I think it would be very important to have a small entry way which is on a secluded side of the house. I think it is also important to have a large common area with several large windows facing the South so that natural light is a huge source of the lighting. Also, if writers wish to gather and chat or write in this area, it is very welcoming and the sun will bring in warmth. I think it is also important to have a rather large porch facing south-west giving writers a place to gather outside and think as the days sun goes down. The bedrooms should face South-east as to wake up with the sun and have some daily exposer to natural sunlight. I think the pattern of a private house is very important so the common areas are in the front of the house and the bedrooms are located in the back of the house. I would place the bathroom and kitchen in the middle of the house because they are mutual areas shared by all. I also see placing the building on a long east-west axis important to keep the heat in during the winter which makes the building more pleasant and cheaper to run. I think having a looping area would be nice for the building so that as people pass from their rooms they pass into the common room and through the kitchen. Although to make a realistic building many of the patterns I have chosen would have to be rearranged accordingly, I think that they are all important in designing of a winter retreat.
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