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Conventional poured concrete formwork makes shapes hard to see because one sees the reverse of what is being made, making it difficult to modify proportions to achieve the field of centers

Alexander's phenomenological argument for gunite over conventional poured concrete.

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Gunite guidework visibility probe
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Alexander invites the reader to feel why gunite's visibility makes it superior to conventional formwork for achieving the field of centers.

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Empirical generalisation from built examples, with no counterexample found.
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