How many possible mistakes are there in a typical house?

Question leading to the cost analysis; the answer is around 20,000 mistakes.

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An ordinary American house contains a density of about 1 decision per cubic foot, thus about 20,000 possible mistakes when the house is not generated.
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Estimate based on labor hours and physical pieces; used to motivate economic cost analysis.

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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.

Each room will most often be simple in shape, most often rectangular.claim0.741
Invariant of good rooms.
Buildings of recent decades (1940-90) are noticeably missing in these fifteen properties, and this is intentional due to 20th-century architectural theoriesclaim0.736
Historical-critical claim that modern architecture consciously abandoned understanding and use of the fifteen properties, making contemporary buildings poor illustrations of living structure
The value difference between a house with 10,000 mistakes ($150,000) and a mistake-free one ($600,000) could be on the order of $450,000.claim0.734
Cost estimate illustrating the economic cost of fabricated structures; even a low-cost Indian house could see a tenfold value increase.
Each house must be different to give each family its dignity; identical mass-produced houses violate the individual life and dreams that underpin the living processclaim0.730
The socially normative claim Alexander and the families made against Hernan Alesia's standardization demand.
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.claim0.725
Direct application of the coin argument to building design and construction.
These results will open the door to a new way of discussing the fifteen propertiesclaim0.724
The authors' forward-looking assertion that their visual-analytic method can transform discourse about Alexander's properties.
mistakes of adaptationconcept0.717
Geometrical or functional failures where a decision does not fit harmoniously with the whole; each decision point in a fabricated object is likely a mistake.
For a given task, the number of all sequences which work is tiny by comparison with the huge number of all possible sequences; less than a trillionth of all 6 × 10^23 possible sequences actually work well enough.claim0.713
A combinatorial argument that good sequences are astronomically rare, emphasizing the difficulty of discovery.