“Make all the outdoor spaces which surround and lie between your buildings positive.  Give each one some degree of enclosure; surround each space with wings of buildings, trees, hedges, fences, arcades, and trellised walks, until it becomes an entity with a postive quality and does not spill out indefintely around corners.” P 522 A Pattern Language

Complete the positive character of the outdoors by making places all around the edge of buildings, and so make the outdoors as mcuh a focus of attention as the buildings–Building Edge (160).   P 523