The place of culture in architecture
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Abstract
The Southern African country of Botswana is relatively young, having gained its independence from the British in 1966. The capital city, Gaborone, is relatively new, designed after the garden city models in 1963. A proud people, the Tswana are full of tradition in their ways. The culture dates back centuries. Many people do not call Gaborone home. It is just a place they happen to work in; home is in the village, for some over 800 km away. All seasonal festivities (Independence Day, Christmas and so on) are times for heading home to celebrate with the family. It is a time one uses to see the cattle at the cattle post and visit the lands to see how the crops and the small livestock are doing. Yes, the pastoral culture still reigns supreme. A proud nation indeed, you come to the city and very little of the people is visible. The architecture has all the ideas the layman attributes to the west. The culture of the nation is nowhere to be found. Even the nation's kgotla, the House of Parliament, does not relate to the culture of such a proud people. The thesis is an architectural research of how the Tswana culture can inform architecture. I have looked at the Tswana culture with particular attention to ways of public gathering and governance. The culture, though, is really found in the everyday events: for example, what happens in a typical dwelling and also in rituals like traditional dancing. The values learnt here culminate in the design of the new parliament building(s) in Gaborone. The point is not to transplant the village to the city, since this would not be fruitful; the idea is to learn the values and principles of the culture and apply them to the present setting. This is in essense a reading (an interpretation) of the culture for architectural design purposes. This thesis is undertaken in keeping with the fact that Botswana is a democratic country, and as such the ideas the building(s) portray relate to both tradition and democracy, and the two coexist.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.059 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.024 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.002 |
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".