Hindu Cosmic Relations and Meditative Spaces: Aligning the Ideal with the Real
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines sacred Hindu architecture, specifically temples, as spaces of mediation between the body, building and the Cosmos. Through a series of detailed case study drawings, and an exploratory video investigating nested sacred scales, the project studies the measurements of the Hindu temple and its translation into Western society. The drawings depict temples in a variety of scales and analyze space through sensory and bodily measurement. They inform the design of a network of meditative spaces across urban sites in Canada that preserve the spatial complexities and trans-scalar relationships documented in the case studies and video exploration. This thesis negotiates the spatial ideals and pure geometries of sacred Hindu spaces, while accommodating the irregularity of the sites through the design of ephemeral Hindu meditative spaces. “Yatha Pinde Thatha Brahmande, Yatha Brahmande Thatha Pinde” (What obtains in the microcosm, obtains in the macrocosm; and vice versa) - Yajur Veda Shloka
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.039 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".