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92 Let's take for example the pattern called ‘Arcade' - an archetype of a structure that relates to the transition area between a building and the open space around it . Although the arcade in the synagogue I designed in Hadera is different from the one in the old cloister in Assisi or in the Senior Citizens Day Center I designed in Tel - Aviv, there is one superstructure common to them all, a superstructure that defines the repeating relationship between the building and its surroundings . remains the same . The importance of these patterns, 250 in number as listed by Alexander in his book, APattern Language , lies in the fact that they constitute a system which generates an entire language . It includes patterns from the city scale level to that of individual buildings and construction details . Each pattern in the language consists of other smaller patterns and is at the same time part of a larger pattern . In other words, each pattern is a pattern of relationships . The language is a generative one and the hierarchical order of the patterns it consists of, is determined by the rules of the language itself . What ultimately creates a meaningful house, a street or a city is similar to what gives meaning to a sentence in the spoken language, which is the syntax . Another example : When we come across an African tree we have never seen before, we do recognize it as a tree . The reason for that is that, because the entity we identify as a ‘tree' is not the visible form, but the underlying structure, the relationship between the parts of a tree . And although form repeats itself in an infinite variety, the pattern of relationship The use of the pattern 'Arcade' . The Maimonides Central Sephardic Synagogue, Hadera Designed by ) Nili Portugali ( . The use of the pattern 'Arcade' . Senior Citizens Day Center, Tel - Aviv ) Designed by Nili Portugali ( . The use of the pattern 'Arcade' . San Damiano Cloister ; Assisi . The Timeless Way of Building page 314 ) (
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פורטוגלי, נילי
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