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finding:a-medium-building-volume-contains-roughly-10-9-cell-sized-piecesA medium building volume contains roughly 10^9 cell-sized pieces
Estimation from 50,000 m³ volume and average cell volume 100 cm³.
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- Numerical estimate based on 50,000 m³ volume containing ~10^9 cells, each with 100 possible contents.
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- The three-dimensional mass of the building, to be established as a primitive rectangle in response to the centers in public space.
- Extrapolated from sample statistics: roughly 50 pieces per square meter.
- Asserts the universal necessity of simple exterior volumes regardless of building size
- Initial sample suggesting a density of 464 pieces per m² in detailed areas, later averaged to 50/m² overall.
- Rule for the most important room.
- Estimate based on labor hours and physical pieces; used to motivate economic cost analysis.
- The land itself, and our love for it, is enough to give the actual building volumes their shape.claim0.717If the volumes genuinely help the land, they become more graceful, serious, and differentiated.
- Alexander's foundational claim linking material technique directly to the possibility of living architecture.