As Humans, we prefer some spaces to be private, especially habited rooms and bedrooms.
Privacy /privv si, pri-/
• noun a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by others.
A sense of Refuge becomes a cause for programming privacy through screening devices.
Screen ORIGIN Old French escren.
• noun 1 an upright partition used to divide a room (space), give shelter, or provide concealment. 2 something that provides shelter or concealment (or privacy).
• verb 1 conceal, protect, or shelter with a screen. 2 protect from something dangerous or unpleasant (or visually/ mentally intrusive)
Privacy /privv si, pri-/
• noun a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by others.
A sense of Refuge becomes a cause for programming privacy through screening devices.
Screen ORIGIN Old French escren.
• noun 1 an upright partition used to divide a room (space), give shelter, or provide concealment. 2 something that provides shelter or concealment (or privacy).
• verb 1 conceal, protect, or shelter with a screen. 2 protect from something dangerous or unpleasant (or visually/ mentally intrusive)
As seen in contemporary architecture, why do architects design bedrooms with thermally insulated glazing from ceiling-to-floor and not consider “screening” the space for “privacy” till the client puts his/her foot down?
How justified is their requirement to expect trees to do that humble job of screening for privacy for bedrooms beyond the first floor timed with project completion, especially when there are no mature trees around for ready screening?
Irony /ir ni/ ORIGIN Greek eironeia ‘simulated ignorance’.
• noun (pl. ironies) 1 the expression of meaning through the use of language which normally signifies the opposite. 2 a state of affairs that appears perversely contrary to what one expects (or requires).
How much more sensible is it to glaze the walls end-to- end and then put blinds on the inside- or as recently seen- teakwood fins on the outside for a suburban bungalow?
What happened to walls with windows? Is it now a common belief that it is no longer hip to design walls with windows?
Having failed to read the site+functional appropriateness of their glazing, Architecture today needs Fenestration more than ever.
Fenestration /fennistraysh’n/ ORIGIN Latin, from fenestra ‘window’.
• noun 1 Architecture the arrangement of windows in a building. 2 Medicine a surgical operation in which a new opening is formed in the labyrinth of the inner ear to improve hearing.
(all word meanings and italics courtesy OED. Parenthesis mine)
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