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artifact:julian-street-inn-dining-hall-truss-floral-plant-like-trussJulian Street Inn dining hall truss (floral plant-like truss)
The concrete tracery truss designed for the dining hall of the Julian Street Inn, developed by iterative finite element analysis and unfolding.
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- A method introduced in Book 1 where observers compare their feeling of self with the life in a candidate thing; Alexander claims it correlates with observed life in thousands of centers.
- Engineering simulation used from the earliest stage to develop the syncopated structural grid for large buildings.
- Dry air-shot concrete technique used to create finely detailed, formwork-free concrete trusses.
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- Chapter 6: How Living Process Generates Positive Space in Engineering Structure and GeometryintroducesChapter 6 of Volume 3 of The Nature of Order, showing how the fundamental process generates engineering structure and positive space.