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Garden Porches

Garden Porches

This study intersperses gabled frames on terraces, creating garden porches between. Each frame itself incorporates an atrium as a nested porch. This rhythm of garden rooms steps down the hill: porches with views for gathering both covered and uncovered, all in service of the coinage Garden Porches, itself in service of the prime Coináge, Vineyard Agora.

…In early Greece, the agora was a place of assembly, later as a marketplace too, these twinned functions of the agora are represented with two verbs: Agoreuo (I speak in public), and Agorazo (I shop)…