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concept:tranquilitytranquility
A quality of profound peace, stillness, and joy that permeates a room when all non-essential elements are removed; the final stage of unfolding.
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Artifacts (3)
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- Tokyo Forum Assembly HallsupportsA massive 50m x 70m room with giant columns containing rooms, Vierendeel box beams, and soft light; intended to achieve tranquility through fine structure.
- Linz Cafe interiorsupportsA sparse room with plain wooden tables, a few wooden ceilings, and utter simplicity of rectangles, showing tranquility.
- Waldorf School auditorium and theater, Altadenaassociated_withA not-yet-built dark room suffused with dim light, planned to be dominated by frescoes of angels and dark stained glass.
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.
- A procedure: stand in the place, ask whether each candidate element generates greater tranquility in you; keep if yes, reject if no.
- Final lines describing the ultimate ordinariness and authenticity of living architecture.
- The idea that wholeness goes beyond structural order, becoming a single, melted unity that connects us directly with the ground (the I), experienced as inner light.
- The directness of motivation by practical concerns, characteristic of living processes in the examples.
- A property that makes a segment of space stand out as a center; determined by symmetry, connectedness, convexity, etc.
- A road that is kinder to hills, more harmoniously related, exhibits greater life.
- The Zen concept of a state beyond ego and conceptual thought, equated by Alexander with reaching the I through truly pleasing oneself.