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# patterning
- a [[book club]]
- [[go]] https://lorand.earth/patterning/
- [[pull]] [[reading alexander]] [[christopher-alexander-reading-group]]
- [[git]] https://github.com/JonathanLorand/patterning
- [[stoa]] [[git]]
- [[pull]] [[notes on the synthesis of form]] [[notsof]]
- [[pull]] [[a pattern language]] [[apl]]
- [[pull]] [[the timeless way of building]] [[ttwob]]
- [[initial meeting]] in late [[february 2020]]
- [[personal]] and [[group]] note taking
- using [[hypothes.is]]
- using [[etherpad]]
- [[git stoa]]
- [[dropbox]] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5rf0aq0hky456nz/AAAZi2LtJBWxHr7t-pFmuk-Pa?dl=0
## [[2021-08-01]]
- [[lorand]]
- tension between writing something understandable for everyone and going deep
- thing with the lightbulbs ended up attracting a lot of attention
- aside
- [[flancian]] it feels like a high dimensional celullar automata
- [[systems theory]], kept wondering about whether people knew about it
- the other "leg" is chapter 15, using feelings.
- ultimately would love to have some text that has a couple of the ideas that were interesting, drilling down on those.
- [[simon]]
- interaction between the environment and people
- there is something in the environment, in the object themselves, which encodes ways of behaviour
- [[ezra klein podcast]] and the extended mind
- you can divorce the form/pattern, reuse it in different ways
- a pattern language is a collection of forms
- extended mind -> a way of getting around the 'problem' of feeling
- in architecture we're always looking at plans
- you can take the form of a plan, take it into a different context and use it in a different way
- [[lorand]] love the list of paradoxes
- +1
- when you went back to the toy model, did you understand it better?
- got incremental understanding
- didn't go all the way into convincing myself with the actual mathematical proof
- [[flancian]] [[celullar automata]], [[game of life]]
- [[lorand]] [[entropy and diversity]]
- [[homeostasis]]
- [[flancian]] key word
- a failing proposition :)
- aided by [[modular approach]]
- [[simon]] top down and bottom up approaches, which seem to map to selfconscious and unselfconscious in [[notsof]]
- [[simon]] often work with planning laws, which interact with data variables (traffic, rate of light, etc.).
- there is also a decisive factor: the qualities you want in the building you are trying to build.
- [[flancian]] how do you think about the time variable in architecture? aging in buildings, entropy :)
- you begin a project with a long list of requirements that you have to meet -- but those are day one. unclear how they will evolve over the years.
- [[modularity aids upgradability]] in information theory
- are building upgrades modular?
- [[simon]] 60s-70s: yes. but that failed :) see capsule hotel, which remained unchanged because people liked it how it was.
- but often it's the older building stock that is easiest to upgrade -- you can tear down walls and build new walls easily.
- are there typical reasons that projects fail?
- bad context: buildings placed in the wrong place/without the right support
- buildings that are built with a very specific use, e.g. a fashion center when the fashion industry is moving away
- hard to adapt office to residential and residential to office
- are there any projects that are designed to have a short timespan, or need continuous updating?
- classic project by [[alejandro aravena]]: https://www.archdaily.com/797779/half-a-house-builds-a-whole-community-elementals-controversial-social-housing
- it's hard to know the needs of the future, so he built half a house and left the other half up to the user
- [[japanese]] architecture doesn't value longevity the same way
- [[requirements elicitation]]
- Q: would patterns of pattern connectivity be interesting?
- seems like something to keep in mind but it would quickly get too abstract?
- [[simon]] reminds me of the diagrams at the end of [[notsof]]
## [[2021-07-11]]
- [[armengol]] [[lorand]] [[simon]] [[flancian]]
- [[flancian]] proposal: meet a few more times but perhaps more spaced out?
- [[simon]] sounds good. july works for me.
- [[lorand]] summer sounds more certain than fall; unclear what commitments will be like in fall.
- [[armengol]] uncertainty about august.
- interested in summarizing the experience, some meta.
- could explore:
- writing something together/individually