The relationship of the new volume to the existing structure is almost like a molecular lock-and-key relationship.

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

• How can we specify this nearly lock-and-key relationship of the new volume to the existing configuration?question0.845
  Acknowledges the difficulty of formalizing the fit between building and site.
• Links between molecular and cellular structures of nature and how the brain sees and understands them are foundational to designclaim0.782
  Alexander's assertion that understanding natural structures at multiple scales is essential to architecture and design philosophy.
• Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.776
  Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
• The process of adding local symmetries in a structure-preserving way intensifies the feeling, and when carried out fully leads to the emergence of the archetype.claim0.774
• The degree of similarities which exist in a structure must correspond exactly to the degree of similarity of the conditions there, and the degrees of differences which exist in a structure must also correspond to the degrees of difference in the conditions there.claim0.773
  The profound principle that underlies all living structure; symmetry as the mathematical trace of necessity.
• Projects with living structure will often tend to have an informal formal character of volume and space.claim0.773
  This morphological quality is visible in the Berryessa house plan and is typical of class-one structures.
• Gap junctions provide an 'owner wiping property' for signaling molecules, leading to partial erasure of individual identity for cells in a network and enabling a higher-order emergent collective.claim0.768
  Mechanistic claim for how collectives scale.
• The first thing to unfold will usually be the volume itself, actually an arrangement of volumes, as a primitive rectangle with minor rectangles accompanying it.claim0.768
  Prescriptive claim about the initial step of volume emergence from public space.