Jeremy
The term you are looking for may be "desire line".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
If so, it has some latin and old french in desir and some old english in
path.
Best,
Stephen
On 03/11/2011 20:20, "jeremy hunsinger" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There is a design concept or an architectural term that means 'the path that
> people walk, not the path they were supposed to walk. So as designers, we
> design a way for people to proceed through a space, but people as a whole wear
> their own path that is different' I've heard this used once and did not note
> it clearly, I'm wondering if people know this term. It may have been a
> french, german, or greek derived term.
>
> it is not:
> path
> trace
> cowpath
>
>
> Jeremy Hunsinger
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