Mountainside Housing: A Modular Counterpoint to Erickson's Mountaintop Campus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis proposes a mountainside housing ensemble as counterpoint to the Erickson-designed monumental Simon Fraser University campus atop Burnaby Mountain. Simon Fraser's resolutely horizontal Brutalist architecture comprises a constructed landscape and an architecture of finality. Might the flanks of Burnaby Mountain welcome an architecture of un-finality, adjustability, and change, as balancing counterpoint to the formal campus? Availing itself of an armature and modular building system, Mountainside Housing imagines a student village that will evolve over time. Premised on the idea of a Gondola station to connect Burnaby Mountain with the Vancouver Lower Mainland, the settlement will provide flexible and affordable student housing. Inspired by the treehouse dwellings students have built in the woods on Burnaby Mountain and by Erickson and Jeffrey Lindsay's tensegrity structure at Convocation Mall, the architecture reconciles finality and ephemerality while constructing the space generated by the slope's falling ground plane, between ground and sky.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.004 |
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".