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title: "Front Door Bench (242)"
created: 2026-07-01
updated: 2026-07-01
type: concept
status: compiled
namespace: pattern-language
pattern_number: 242
pattern_name: "Front Door Bench"
source_repository: https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md
source_url: https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md/blob/master/Patterns/Front%20Door%20Bench%20%28242%29.md
license_note: Non-commercial reuse with attribution; see namespace README and source LICENSE.md.
related_patterns:
  - "Seat Spots (241)"
  - "Arcades (119)"
  - "Building Edge (160)"
  - "Sunny Place (161)"
  - "Connection to the Earth (168)"
  - "Entrance Room (130)"
  - "Old Age Cottage (155)"
  - "Main Entrance (110)"
  - "Sitting Wall (243)"
  - "Raised Flowers (245)"
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# Front Door Bench (242)

> Source pattern from the abridged `apl-md` corpus. Use as a design reference and constraint seed; do not treat as commercial-clean training data.

### Problem
>People like to watch the street.

### Solution
>Build a special bench outside the front door where people from inside can sit comfortably for hours on end and watch the world go by. Place the bench to define a half-private domain in front of the house. A low wall, planting, a tree, can help to create the same domain.

### Related Patterns
... [[Seat Spots (241)]], acting within several larger patterns, creates an atmosphere around the edge of the building which invites lingering - [[Arcades (119)]], [[Building Edge (160)]], [[Sunny Place (161)]], [[Connection to the Earth (168)]]; it is most marked and most important near the entrance - [[Entrance Room (130)]]. This pattern defines a special [[Seat Spots (241)]]: a bench which helps to form the entrance room and the building edge around the entrance. It is always important; but perhaps most important of all, at the door of an [[Old Age Cottage (155)]].

The bench may help to make the entrance visible - [[Main Entrance (110)]]; it can be part of a wall - [[Sitting Wall (243)]], with flowers in the sunshine next to it - [[Raised Flowers (245)]]. Place it with care, according to the rules given in [[Seat Spots (241)]] ...

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> [!cite]- Alexander, Christopher. _A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction_. Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 1121.
> #APL/confidence/medium
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> #APL/Construction-Patterns/Outdoor-Details