Pattern Languages Homemaker Evolutionary Design https://t.co/HuPAkVM8yW
Mar 30, 2020 • 43 tweets • 18 min read
The days ahead are looking grim, we should all share any work we are doing that has a longer perspective, ideas for the future. This thread is going to be about Homemaker, a software project that is my contribution, enabling a new (old) way of making buildings.
Homemaker is a collection of tools to help us design humane, adaptable and sustainable buildings. Designs that minimise construction costs, where Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language is the guide for meeting human needs.
Jul 6, 2019 • 47 tweets • 9 min read
One of the more interesting things to happen in architecture during the late twentieth century was the discovery by Christopher Alexander of 'Pattern Languages'. jomardpublishing.com/UploadFiles/Fi…
'A Pattern Language' has 253 chapters in a kind of early hypertext format; the idea is that a collection of patterns like this forms a thing called a 'Pattern Language', and Alexander's book is just the first of these.
Nov 6, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
[THREAD ALERT] This chart illustrates nicely that the only sane thing a robot car can do when faced with a crash is to jump on the brakes /1
...plus if a car could stop within its own length, five metres or so, there isn't much else it can to do to mitigate a collision anyway. Steering over such a short distance won't make any difference as to what gets hit /2
