[Design of] the Gill House, Kingston upon Hull
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Gill House’ incorporated two streams of investigation firstly, the application of industrial building methods within a domestic building context. Secondly, the relationship between research practice and teaching, and the practical application of design methods used within an academic environment. One of the primary aims of the building project was to explore the possible application of industrial building methods to a domestic dwelling. This was partly instigated by a need to produce a very cost effective design but also by the client’s desire for an overtly contemporary and flexible building design. In response the main structure was steel framed with the incorporation of a rain screen cladding system, allowing rapid construction of the primary structure and external envelope. The steel frame also allows for the possibility of post-construction modifications to the building, therefore potentially allowing the building to be radically changed in response to different future uses. The innovative design and design methods used in this project and their relationship to teaching were the subject of an invited exhibition at the David Azrelli Gallery, Ottawa, Canada, entitled Gowans+Wright: Studio Works 01 (Catalogue ISBN: 1 86050 205 9 containing a forward by the Curator Assistant Professor Janine Debanne, Carlton School of Architecture). The exhibition detailed the house design and the design method employed to produce it. This was placed in the context of a number of student projects, which had used the same method. The exhibition clearly illustrated the relationship between research practice and teaching and how each informed the other.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.374 | 0.134 |
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".