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Each of the four examples (doll, Julian Street Inn, West Dean bench, Linz alcoves) has the minimal structure for its situation that carries weight of feeling.

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Julian Street Inn (Shelter for the Homeless, San Jose)
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Building by Alexander cited as a case where every symmetry is necessary, creating groundedness.
Green doll (carving by Christopher Alexander)
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A tiny carved and painted doll used as the first example of symmetry production, embodying just what is needed for feeling.
Linz Cafe alcoves
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Alcoves designed through empirical mockup; became a place where people sat for hours, embodying comfort of the soul.
Long curved bench at West Dean Visitor's Centre
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A flint and brick bench that holds an egg-shaped space, making the entrance come alive.

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

The Julian Street Inn's centers meet the four conditions lacking in the Berlin Library: strong smaller centers, non-imitative origin, emergence from wholeness, and contribution to larger centers.claim0.779
Contrastive evaluation showing success of the living process.
In the Julian Street Inn tile mockup comparison, version B (tiles held back from window frame) created greater sense of wholesomeness in observers than version A (tiles cut to frame), despite initial preference for Afinding0.776
Design case study showing the wholeness criterion can reveal non-obvious life distinctions invisible to simpler aesthetic judgments
The Julian Street Inn has the quality that every symmetry is just what is required, making those who stay there feel grounded and more whole.claim0.770
The unexpectedly low, squat columns at West Dean, with capitals at head height, create intimacy because they are in a position where you can touch them, smell them, and see them right in front of your nose.claim0.764
Alexander's explanation of why the apparently insane column proportions produced the correct being-nature for the building.
The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.759
The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
If the feeling is genuine and does arise out of the site itself, then it must be thought of as an absolute which later stages of design and construction must only strengthen, deepen.hypothesis0.757
A conditional rule for the unfolding process.
The places shown are living structures because they have this character (coherence, roughness, humanity).claim0.752
The selection criterion for the examples: their life resides precisely in their special character.
The Linz Cafe alcoves, developed through a trial-and-error mockup to maximize comfort of the soul, were extremely successful and drew people to sit for hours.claim0.751