Spirituality in Place: Building Connections Between Architecture, Design, and Spiritual Experience
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Contemporary urban design practice in western society primarily focuses on addressing basichuman needs (physical and physiological) without sufficient attention to higher-order needs, which are defined as ‘self-transcendence'. Using psychological theory to establish a basis for well-being and health, an argument can be made for gaps in the hierarchy of human needs that current urban design practice does not address. And while contemporary urban design often addresses social aspects of public space it can still lack meaning for users, resulting in places that are not environmentally and socially responsible, and are, to a degree, devoid of elements that create a sense of humanity in place. How then does the builtenvironment, public and private alike, address the more personal, and intimate needs of an individual? How do buildings and streets engage an individual in personal growth, creating a means of contemplation, curiosity and exploration, and knit together ideals and convictions that guide our lives? This project uses the notion of ‘spirituality in place' to seek out the qualities of the built environment that contribute to places which, through their physical design, allow users to find greater meaning in their surroundings. Designers and architects often talk about meaning, beauty, poetics, connection, atmosphere and other ethereal, invisible aspects of a place. It is the objective of this research project to make more visible these invisible qualities of the built environment, by exploring the relationship between Buddhism and Taoism and contemporary architectural and urban design practice. This project defines spirituality in the context of the built environment, theorizes a framework for spirituality in place consisting of humanity, sensuality and sustainability, and deploys this framework to identify ways in which spirituality is manifest in the built environment through a critical analysis of select sites.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".