Zen View

from PatternLanguage, by ChristopherAlexander

If there is a beautiful view, don't spoil it by building huge windows that gape incessantly at it. Instead, put the windows which look onto the view at places of transition-- along paths, in hallways, in entry ways, on stairs, between rooms.

If the view window is correctly placed, people will see a glimpse of the distant view as they come up to the window or pass it: but the view is never visible from the places where people stay.

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This reminds me of a sculpture in Eindhoven TheNetherlands. In the middle of a traffic circle at the end of a long straightaway, there is a sculpture which at certain times of day looks like the Penrose impossible triangle, or "tribar", when driving towards it.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_triangle

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