method
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method:living-kitchen-design-sequence-from-patternlanguage-comLiving kitchen design sequence from PATTERNLANGUAGE.COM
Nine-step kitchen design sequence focusing on centers: activities, windows, table, fireplace, garden, door, counter, thick walls.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Concepts (1)
concept
- Living processimplementsA generative process that repeatedly applies the fundamental process to create uniqueness and belonging in the environment
Artifacts (1)
artifact
- patternlanguage.comaboutWebsite where Alexander's construction contracts are downloadable.
Chapters (1)
chapter
- Encouraging FreedomintroducesChapter 18 of Vol 2, on making everyday social processes more living and ultimately morphogenetic.
Conceptual bridges
2-hop · via this method's ideasWhere ideas in this method connect to the rest of the corpus — the same concept, an analogy, or a restatement elsewhere.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- A structured design process developed with Santa Rosa families allowing each family to lay out their own unique house.
- Commercial CAD sequence that allows free placement of counters, appliances, and colors without guidance about centers.
- Gang of Four patterns book referenced for the Memento pattern used in view creation.
- A generative sequence enabling families to lay out an organic, unique, and beautiful house suited to site and people.
- The counterintuitive sequence of first locating the garden in the most beautiful place, then placing the house to support it; shows the enormous significance of order even for two steps.
- A morphogenetic sequence for direct architect management of tilework, incorporating the fifteen transformations into design and laying steps.