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The notion of affordances has been used to represent functionality and usability in several design areas. The paper considers its applicability to architecture and buildings. It discusses a distinction between the affordances of building elements and spaces, and a number of dimensions for the mapping of different aspects.
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KOUTAMANIS, A. (2006). BUILDINGS AND AFFORDANCES. In: GERO, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition ’06. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5131-9_18
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