A nice article on a transitional housing homeless project in Toronto, by architects Levitt Goodman Architects.
As Goodman describes the project, echoes of Herman Hertzberger's "non-programmed" spatial strategies resound: the creation of places for the accommodation of unanticipated activities. Goodman acknowledges this resonance, as well as another one: Christopher Alexander's "intimacy gradient" pattern. A clear and defensible transition between "most public" and "most private" is especially important to men whose lives have been stripped of many of the dignities most of us take for granted.
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