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A sense of being complete and comfortable, as in the friendly house edge, that enhances life.
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Concepts (1)
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- personal things and human presenceassociated_withObjects that show human use and adaptation, such as the zone behind the bed, making a space more alive.
Chapters (1)
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- Degrees of LifementionsChapter 2, introducing the concept that all space has an objective, measurable degree of life.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- The quality of being rough, not manicured, concept-free, and genuine, which produces life in everyday situations and modern artifacts.
- The smooth industrial surface finish that 20th-century construction norms have accustomed builders to; Alexander argues the slight roughness of styrofoam-formed concrete is positively life-like.
- Specification concerning what a program achieves in the world, analogous to perlocutionary correctness.
- Reorienting in expectation of reinforcements; a cognitive quality in plants.
- The deep, unpretentious ease that arises in places where people can be themselves, supported by the subtle adaptation of the physical environment.
- The core prescription of the chapter: making what truly pleases you at the deepest level, which Alexander argues is the key to creating all living structure and the path to the I.
- Final lines describing the ultimate ordinariness and authenticity of living architecture.