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concept:dominant-coherent-centerdominant coherent center
A focal entity within a room created by the interplay of exterior view, interior space, ceiling, and windows, which makes a person want to be there.
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Claims (1)
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- Most critical is the appearance within the room of a dominant, coherent center formed by exterior view, space, ceiling, and windows.associated_withThe most subtle invariant of good rooms.
Chapters (1)
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- This chapter describes how living process unfolds to create rooms with life, covering position, main centers, fine structure, and tranquility.
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.
- Major consciousness science center directed by Ned Block and David Chalmers
- Integrated, living structures that emerge from morphogenetic piecemeal growth.
- The degree of life of individual centers, which can be increased or decreased by other centers.
- The key interior centers—often near light and quiet from movement—that define the room's life.
- The property that living structures contain centers that are not merely blobs but strong, field-like centers that organize the space around them; every strong center is made of many other strong centers recursively
- The overall configuration of interrelated centers that constitutes a whole.
- Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
- The degree to which centers are packed and overlapped, contributing to the life of the whole.