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In the Julian Street Inn tile mockup comparison, version B (tiles held back from window frame) created greater sense of wholesomeness in observers than version A (tiles cut to frame), despite initial preference for A

Design case study showing the wholeness criterion can reveal non-obvious life distinctions invisible to simpler aesthetic judgments

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Observation of a person's inner state of wholeness can give reliable and objective information about the objective living character of systems in the external world
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Central claim of the chapter: what appears subjective (inner feeling) is actually an objective measuring instrument for external reality

Events (1)

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Construction of Julian Street Inn, San Jose, California
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Building project where Alexander used the mirror-of-self test to resolve a subtle tile-to-window junction design choice

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

The Julian Street Inn has the quality that every symmetry is just what is required, making those who stay there feel grounded and more whole.claim0.785
Each of the four examples (doll, Julian Street Inn, West Dean bench, Linz alcoves) has the minimal structure for its situation that carries weight of feeling.claim0.776
In the Julian Street Inn, all ornamental details are necessary because they contribute to the wholeness and make the larger wholes work better.claim0.769
Interpretation of the homeless man's observation that all parts felt necessary.
The Julian Street Inn's centers meet the four conditions lacking in the Berlin Library: strong smaller centers, non-imitative origin, emergence from wholeness, and contribution to larger centers.claim0.762
Contrastive evaluation showing success of the living process.
Smaller models produce more alive responses than larger ones in the same alignment family—roughness signals living process over manufactured polish.claim0.759
It is, indeed, this pattern of the middle-sized entities, which most strongly gives overall geometric order to the building. Without it, a building is very unlikely to be beautiful.claim0.757
Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
A roughly bent S-curve of cardboard placed at the Berkeley house entrance showed noticeably more life potential than a straight approach, demonstrable even at rough mockup stagefinding0.751
Design process case study showing the wholeness criterion operates effectively at early rough mockup stages
What is it about the Julian Street Inn, and its centers, which gives them a special life, which makes them more authentic, or more deeply adapted, more truly derived from the wholeness which is there?question0.749
Comparative question contrasting successful living process with postmodern failure.