But the French presidency has a way of infecting its occupant with visions of architectural grandeur.
On Aug. 14, a great white shark flipped a kayak off Pigeon Point in San Mateo County but left its occupant with only a cut.
For most buildings, the code specifies that there be no less than 80 square feet of living space for each occupant, with certain exceptions.
These say that there should be 355 square feet of internal space for the first occupant, with each additional resident getting another 140 square feet.
Nearby is "Raven's Variable Matrix" (2000), a small birdlike flying machine built for a single occupant with clear plastic wings that reveal its inner workings but are crazily tipped in big black feather shapes.
A few years after the extravagant, 340-room residence for the British viceroy was first occupied, its architect had to be summoned from London to undo the damage done to its interiors by an eccentric occupant with a passion for redecorating and a weakness for the colour mauve.
He brands several of the stadiums white elephants – Cape Town's Green Point Urban Park, costing £2m a year in public money to maintain, still lacking a convincing occupant with rugby union's Western Province reluctant to move from its Newlands stadium, sticks out most starkly.
It is, as Mr. Silver points out, consistent with the window views painted by Matisse from various hotel rooms at Nice, with the automobile serving here as a kind of hotel room on wheels that still provides the occupant with privacy.
Helicopter seats are designed to a specified weight range for an occupant with equipment.
The safe velocity, the velocity that prevents bottoming out, reduces from 10.2 m/s, for an occupant without equipment, to 7.4 m/s for an occupant with an equipment mass of 40 kg at the lower and upper torso and 2 kg at the head.
The objectives of this paper are to simulate the indoor total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs) distribution emitted from a new floor and the total TVOCs quantity inhaled by an occupant with the different fresh air ratios under a re-circulated ventilation system.
