Practice question · Multiple choice
Why does adding corridors to a house change social life, when it adds no rooms?
Hints
- What must you do to reach a far room in a house with no corridor?
- A corridor is a machine for something.
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C. Privacy: rooms you can be shut out of
Why
Without a corridor you reach the far room by walking through the near ones. With one, a room becomes closable. Nobody published a manifesto demanding privacy, the floor plan announces it anyway.
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