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concept:harmony-with-surroundingsharmony with surroundings
A road that is kinder to hills, more harmoniously related, exhibits greater life.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
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- harmonyrelated_toDeep geometric and experiential coherence produced by morphogenesis.
- structural features contributing to lifeassociated_withAttributes such as light, detail, harmony, adaptation that appear to correlate with higher perceived life.
Chapters (1)
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- Degrees of LifementionsChapter 2, introducing the concept that all space has an objective, measurable degree of life.
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- Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.
- A new form of computation that finds harmonious configurations by strengthening latent structures in a system while preserving the existing wholeness, applicable to buildings, towns, ecology, and natural systems.
- The rhythmic, varied spacing of structural elements — unequal yet coherent — that gives a building its subtle harmony and profound feeling through strength of definiteness
- Cognitive basis of the traditional builder's ability.
- Central question animating the paper: whether the intuitive process of preserving and enhancing wholeness can be formalized and automated.