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Living centers

Coherent spatial wholes that emerge from living processes; they are the building blocks of environments that foster belonging

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Thinkers (1)

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Claims (1)

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Methods (1)

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Concepts (8)

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  • living structure
    associated_with
    A built or natural form that possesses life, arising from morphogenetic adaptation, as opposed to blueprint designs.
  • Centers
    extends
    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.
  • Fundamental process
    introduces
    The core iterative procedure that creates living structure; the engine of living process
  • field of centers
    associated_with
    The overall configuration of interrelated centers that constitutes a whole.
  • Latent Centers
    associated_with
    Configurational entities existing implicitly in a structure; guide perception and generation of next morphogenetic step; exemplified in St Mark's square cycles.
  • unity
    associated_with
    The indivisible oneness, meltedness that is the source of life; it cannot be described as a structure because it is pure one.
  • Courtyard
    implements
    A center introduced between house and garden, shaped to complement both and bridge them via a veranda, used in Venezuela and Kerala projects.
  • Uniqueness
    associated_with
    The property that every place generated by a living process is inevitably unique due to its adaptation to specific conditions.

Chapters (5)

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  • Chapter 16: Form Language And Style
    mentions
    The chapter argues that creating living structure requires a form language, and proposes that the fifteen structure-preserving transformations can serve as the basis for such a language.
  • Chapter 8: Step-By-Step Adaptation
    mentions
    The chapter argues that all living processes must proceed step by step with feedback, and that modern architecture fails because it lacks this core.
  • Belonging And Not-Belonging
    mentions
    Chapter 1 of Volume 3, introducing the concepts of belonging and not-belonging in the built environment
  • The Goal of Tears
    about
    The title concept: tears represent the achievement of unity and sadness in a work, where the geometry itself embodies a quality that brings one to tears.
  • Encouraging Freedom
    cites
    Chapter 18 of Vol 2, on making everyday social processes more living and ultimately morphogenetic.

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  • Garden Before Lot Lines
    implements
    In the Guasare neighborhood layout process, the sequence in which gardens and lot lines are established determines whether gardens become positive centers.
  • Street as Center
    implements
    In the Guasare process and all living neighborhood development, the street's spatial character depends entirely on how houses are positioned to shape it.

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