Six-step ornament evolution from Hiro Nakano: dots to circles to sectors to bands

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• Ornament evolution from evenly spaced dots through six steps using alternating repetition, strong centers, good shape, levels of scale, boundaries, contrast, and local symmetries.finding0.843
  Simple graphical example demonstrating how sequential application of the fifteen properties creates increasingly coherent aesthetic form.
• Ornament arises naturally from the continued unfolding of the wholeclaim0.752
  The central thesis: embellishment is spontaneous, coming from the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more structure.
• Ornament and function arise from a single evolving morphology; in a living building they are one.claim0.751
  The alternative to the mechanistic split, crucial for a vital architecture.
• In a living process, the generation of ornament goes hand in hand with constructionclaim0.745
  Ornament is the detail that forms as the process constantly refines the centers that are there during making.
• Ornament arises, naturally, when a person is making something and seeks to embellish this 'something' while making it.quote0.745
  Opening sentence of the chapter, encapsulating the natural origin of ornament.
• The process of getting the ornament from the space works by structure-preserving transformationsclaim0.732
  The design of the floor, color, and geometry all arose as a result of structure-enhancing transformations in the place.
• If the fundamental process is followed, it is inevitable that ornaments will have certain things in common and a certain profound quality in common.claim0.731
  Prediction that ornaments from the process will share space-filling geometries, positive space, etc.
• The ornament from a Pennsylvania barn causes the observer's humanity to expand; the symbolic ornament from Brasilia causes humanity to diminish, despite Brasilia's ornament being intended as upliftingfinding0.731
  Comparative case study illustrating that intended symbolic meaning does not determine actual phenomenological impact on observer wholeness