Deconstructing the threshold: a new architectural language for the three nations border crossing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Deconstructing the Threshold: A New Architectural Language for the Three Nations Border Crossing confronts the philosophical framework of the international border between Canada and the United States. By identifying three fictions, following Peter Eisenman in his essay “The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, the End of the End,” the thesis categorizes the language of a border crossing into three fictions: Identity (Meaning), Truth (Threshold) and History (Borders through Time). By understanding these fictions to be the message that Ports of Entry (POE) are designed to convey, how can they be deconstructed, to be read by groups of people who do not acknowledge the border? The study site and location of a building proposal is located at the Seaway International Bridge Crossing spanning between Cornwall, Ontario and Rooseveltown, New York. The site plays an important role in the ideas presented in the thesis as the site is the location of Akwesasne First Nation, unceded Mohawk territory which is bisected by this border, reinforcing the idea of borders as abstract constructs. As borders are not percieved in the same way by everyone this thesis poses the question - how can a threshold become a space that embodies the idea of shared collective difference?
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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 | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.042 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".