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concept:life-quality-in-environmentslife (quality in environments)
The felt quality of wholeness and adaptation that makes a place truly sustainable and nourishing.
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- Life (in buildings)related_toThe quality that makes a building or place alive, beautiful, and supportive of human life; argued to arise from the wholeness of centers.
- Life as a Quality of Spacerelated_toThe idea that life is not merely an attribute of living organisms but an attribute of space itself; any spatial system can have more or less life depending on the life of its component centers and their density
- life (as quality in architecture)related_toThe felt quality of wholeness and aliveness in a building or a work, the aim of the fundamental process.
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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 experienced presence of aliveness, wholeness, and connectedness in built form, beyond biological life.
- The physical or conceptual space where loose parts are situated.
- The diverse materials, shapes, phenomena, media, sounds, etc. that constitute loose parts and drive inventiveness.
- The quality of having profound wholeness, which makes us feel our own existence most deeply.
- Summarizes the chapter’s view that life exists in the very materials of a building.
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- The general, non-biological quality that Alexander claims exists in all material systems to varying degrees.
- Background definitional challenge noted as notoriously difficult, motivating the paper's approach of updating 'machine' rather than defining 'life'