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The Aleatoric Milieu: An Architectural Theory on Proxemics and Navigation Design

2015· dissertation· en· W2250499713 on OpenAlex
Elaine Yan Ling Lui

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Bibliographic record

VenueUWSpace (University of Waterloo) · 2015
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical Geography and Cartography
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProxemicsArchitectural theoryArchitectural engineeringEngineeringHuman–computer interactionComputer scienceArchitectureVisual artsArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Aleatoric Milieu is an architectural theory that combines the space people require to feel at ease and natural wayfinding. By investigating how buildings and cities naturally possess or have been observed to develop ways to accommodate such considerations, we can learn how to create buildings that are hospitable to their communities. The Aleatoric Milieu provides a tool for spatial design that incorporates user-friendly spaces in cities and buildings. The theory strives to foster healthy transitions between inter-personal dynamics while intuitively connecting people to services a building provides, establishing an accessible environment.
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\nIn order to design for cities and buildings that consist of a hospitable design language, how the human body and its receptors interact with others is used to analyze dimensions of public, social and personal scale. To navigate these transitions in their application to the purpose of city and building infrastructure – be it retail, parks, monuments, or an information kiosk – requires a narration of space. Navigation design provides a spatial narration of space using an interconnected concept distilled into the narthex, path, and node. Narthex refers to an initial location of first impressions, informing users of a node and allowing for decisions to continue on a path to the node. The path refers to a recurring architectural treatment that edifies the node – the point of architectural interest, purpose or necessity.
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\nTherefore, the Aleatoric Milieu consists of two main parts: proxemics and navigation design with a third organizing factor. Natural city development principles are used to link proxemics with navigation design to arrive at an architectural language that coincides with the development of cities. The greatest density exists in the public sphere, and the least dense travels the proxemic scale to increased privacy and vice versa through the principles of navigation design. Thus, the Aleatoric Milieu can be applied to strategies for design in specific proxemics at the end of chapter three.
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\nThese principles are visible in museums, as they are institutions that functions as miniature cities – they are the holding place of culture, ideas, or objects that exemplify a city. As such, in this paper, museums are used as case studies to examine the success or obstacles to hospitality through an analysis that uses the Aleatoric Milieu.
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\nFinally, to illustrate a sequence of nodes, a museum design demonstrates a strategy of the Aleatoric Milieu that includes navigation design and proxemics. It is tested against a series of scenarios to accommodate the proxemics of “non-contact middle-class adults” with the addition of child-care supervision standards of Ontario, Canada. 
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\nThe Aleatoric Milieu design theory ultimately strives to arrive at an architectural framework that creates inclusive space. Implementing these design considerations can produce concurrent buildings that welcomes and attracts its users, while naturally fostering a sense of community over time.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.338
Threshold uncertainty score0.985

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it