100 — Antoni Gaudí 1 — Bad at School
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The Strange Effects of Circulating Between Rooms
It's got a very peculiar plan. Or, I mean, the plan itself is not peculiar, but the method of circulation is peculiar. Things are kind of... There's a kind of big room in the middle and things are sort of organised around it. But there is an idea about always moving in and out through the corners of rooms which produces some quite strange effects. They're decision about how to circulate between the rooms, I think, has a particular effect because it tends to suppress the awareness of other rooms from the room that you're in. In this one, it's like the most suppressed form of circulation between the rooms that you could imagine. The room is kind of like a
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