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method:wood-concrete-combination-structural-systemWood-Concrete Combination Structural System
A hybrid system combining interior wood post-and-beam for vertical forces with exterior thin concrete shell for horizontal and shear forces.
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- field of centersimplementsThe overall configuration of interrelated centers that constitutes a whole.
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- A residential project demonstrating the wood-concrete combination structural system with thin concrete shell exterior and wood post-and-beam interior.
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- Chapter 16: How Living Process Should Inspire — Continuous Invention of New Materials and TechniquesintroducesThe working unit under analysis; Alexander argues for inventing new construction techniques that support living process and adaptation.
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- Maturana's concept of continuous dynamic interaction between an organism and its environment; key to understanding living cognition.
- A philosophical position that only the structure of relations is knowable; invoked to support continued self-evidencing.
- The 20th-century divorce of design from making, which prevents ornament from arising naturally.
- Flusser’s category of complexity where the system elements have very complex internal relationships (like apparatus).
- The columns, walls, beams, and vaults that form the geometric underpinning of a building; the fountain of geometrical order in living building processes
- Statement that the versus relation uniquely determines a tree.
- Alexander's technique of carving cheap styrofoam as formwork for complex concrete shapes, enabling brackets, arches, and ornament at low cost.
- A hierarchical branching structure with single-parent nodes, which Alexander rejected for urban design.