Pattern 153
Rooms to Rent
Context Necklace of Community Projects45 · The Family75 · Self-Governing Workshops and Offices80 · Small Services Without Red Tape81 · Flexible Office Space146 · Teenager's Cottage154 · Old Age Cottage155 · Home Workshop157
Problem
Houses tend to get built for one fixed family shape, yet circumstances keep shifting — children leave, income rises and falls, guests or lodgers arrive. Without a room that has its own way in, a house cannot answer to this, and spare rooms sit idle while space is short elsewhere.
Solution
Build at least one room with its own outside door into every sizable house, one that can be let out, handed to a guest, or turned to whatever changing need arises, independent of the rest of the household.
Usage Teenager's Cottage154 · Old Age Cottage155 · Home Workshop157 · Entrance Transition112 · Open Stairs158 · Light on Two Sides of Every Room159 · The Shape of Indoor Space191