capri0mni | (Reply)

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Yes. Indeed. Just so. Especially the detail about usable space.

I don't think ambulatory people are aware of it, because, ever since learning to walk as toddlers, they can, and generally do, step over dips and divots under their feet without consciously registering their existence.

But when you're on wheels, you have four points in constant contact with the ground. It's basically traveling in two dimensions curved over three dimensional space.

So, on those rare occasions when I do go outside my house, where I can be seen by, and talk to, my neighbors, I'm restricted to sitting in my paved driveway or the walkway to my door-- and there's nothing I can really do, in that case... except sit there in order to be visible when one of the neighbors comes out to do some gardening or check their mail (which is how I made a concerted effort to be sociable the first few years I moved here... You can probably intuit why face-to-face socializing gave way to Internet socializing).

So yes, a loggia is just what I need-- a smooth, flat, open space where I can have a table to write or draw at, or read, and have benches and plants that make it clear I welcome people to come join me for conversation. Though part of me wants it to be done in a mock classical style... to spoof the faux opulence of suburbia. >;-)