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framework:morphological-invariants-of-living-engineering-structureMorphological invariants of living engineering structure
Features that settle out when living processes guide structural design: positive interlocking of mass and space, big solid members, fugue-like pattern.
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- Chapter 6: How Living Process Generates Positive Space in Engineering Structure and GeometryintroducesChapter 6 of Volume 3 of The Nature of Order, showing how the fundamental process generates engineering structure and positive space.
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- A set of seven characteristics of buildings made by a living process, listed at the end of the chapter.
- The typical geometric features (irregular streets, polygonal lots, long narrow houses, positive gardens) generated by repeated application of the fundamental process.
- A set of color qualities that emerge from the fundamental process, analogous to the fifteen properties; introduced in this chapter and elaborated in Book 4, chapter 7.
- From the concluding Part Two interlude, asserting a synthesis of science and feeling.
- A strong normative claim from Book 2 recapitulated in the appendix as a verifiable and surprising conclusion.
- The idea that contact with living structure makes us more whole, human, and alive; a claim linking environment to well-being.
- A built or natural form that possesses life, arising from morphogenetic adaptation, as opposed to blueprint designs.