"Figure 1: Plan of Bayleaf illustrating the asymmetrical nature of early open hall houses, with the 'upper' solar to the left, open hall in the middle and 'lower' service area to the right. According to Johnson the open hall carried meaning at three levels. ""At the physical level, it directly moulded circulation patterns within the house around its centrality. At the level of formal symbolic code, it acted as an explicit structuring of space along socially hierarchical, patriarchal lines. At the level of spatial text, it signified several different things: it asserted comimmality and community, but also denoted inequality and segregation at the same time"" (Johnson 1993a, 59; 2010, 67; Harris 1993, 66)."
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