Guasare Step 3: Street Swelling to Form Local Center

At suitable places the street opens slightly to form a swelling or local center.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Methods (2)

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Guasare Step 2: Placing Smaller Streets to Feed the Main Center
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Rule allowing any small street to be added feeding into the main center and the center of gravity of empty areas.
Guasare Step 4: Establishing House Volumes to Form Street
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Rule establishing a volume for each house at the time the street is laid out, so the street is formed as a center by forthcoming house volumes.

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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.

Guasare Step 1: Identifying the Boundary and Main Centermethod0.828
First step of the Guasare neighborhood process: establishing the neighborhood boundary and locating its main center in the best spot on the landform.
The 10-step Guasare process generates a dense field of living centers in which every bit of space — street, lot, garden, courtyard, house — forms a coherent center, a result achievable only by this dynamic sequential processfinding0.802
Demonstration via simulation that the defined process produces complex, organic, center-rich morphology.
Guasare Step 10: Drawing Lot Lines After Centers Are Establishedmethod0.787
Only after courtyards and gardens are established as coherent centers are lot lines drawn — the legally necessary final step.
Guasare Step 5: Placing Garden as Positive Center Before Lot Linesmethod0.784
Rule establishing the garden for each house as a positive center after house volume, defining the lot boundary from the garden's necessities before lot lines are drawn.
Guasare Steps 6-9: Differentiating House Volume into Courtyard and Entrancemethod0.777
Sequential differentiation of the undifferentiated house volume to include entrance, courtyard, and veranda bridging to garden.
The Guasare simulation showed that the defined process generates coherent, complex, and variable morphology for houses, streets, lots and gardens even without influence from external factors such as land and topographyfinding0.742
Key validation that the process itself — not just site conditions — generates living structure.
At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.723
Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
How is this to happen? What kinds of center-creating steps can have such an impact that is both piecemeal and yet also helping to repair and enhance the whole at each step forward?question0.717
Central driving question of the chapter, motivating the exposition of the fundamental process.