Multi-Level Contracts for Large Buildings

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• How is this to be done in a large building?question0.751
  Question about overcoming floor-to-floor repetition to allow uniqueness in each part of a large building.
• Even a gigantic building must still be made of a relatively simple series of exterior volumes which form a single largest center.claim0.739
  Asserts the universal necessity of simple exterior volumes regardless of building size
• If construction is organized around creating complete wholes by integrated teams, the building will achieve more life than with fragmented trades.hypothesis0.734
  Testable prediction from the integrated wholes argument.
• A successful large building will always show subtle syncopation of regularity combined with gentle accommodation to the land, with a continuous range of scales down to the most intimate details.claim0.734
  Summary of the geometric invariants that result from living process in large buildings.
• What function could there be at the center that is important enough to make the building have a series of levels in this fashion?question0.731
  Practical question about the difficulty of creating strong centers in modern houses where traditional centers (fire, marriage bed, table) no longer have emotional power
• A building has too many variables; we cannot get each aspect right unless it is possible to work out one aspect at a time, step by step.claim0.730
  Direct application of the coin argument to building design and construction.
• The forms of these buildings do not allow such an unfolding to occur; they patently do not.claim0.728
  Critique of Renzo Piano's and Daniel Libeskind's buildings as incapable of unfolding.
• What is the essence of the way to make a large building in the context of living process?question0.726
  Central question the chapter aims to answer, posed at the start of the Great Hall discussion.