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concept:recursion-of-living-centersRecursion of Living Centers
The property by which living structure appears more and more deeply as centers are refined within centers, visible in the 13th-century carpet blossom.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Methods (1)
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- Recursive Center RefinementimplementsThe iterative design process in which each center is refined relative to all others until a being-nature emerges; the method section 1 is titled 'Intensifying Shape'.
Concepts (1)
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- Recursion of centersrelated_toThe process by which centers are built up, strengthened, and toughened from other centers, deepening their I-like quality.
Artifacts (1)
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- The central object of sections 1-2; a carpet fragment in Alexander's possession judged to have the strongest I-connection of all compared blossoms.
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.
- Coherent spatial wholes that emerge from living processes; they are the building blocks of environments that foster belonging
- Establishes the necessity of the network of sequences.
- The principle that a center can only be defined in terms of other centers; centers are made of centers.
- The property that centers get their life from supporting larger centers, and larger centers are intensified by smaller ones, forming a recursive network.
- The idea that life in a building comes about as centers cooperatively intensify each other's life, a recursive bootstrapping process.
- Direct statement linking center-interdependence to the concept of life, foundational for the network argument.
- Foundational claim linking the theory of centers to functional analysis of buildings
- At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.733Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.