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Pattern Number: 208

Pattern Title: Gradual Stiffening

Category: Construction

Sub-Category: Let the structure grow directly from your plans and your conception of the buildings

Up links: 205 Structure Follows Social Spaces 206 Efficient Structure 207 Good Materials

Horizontal links: 206 Efficient Structure 207 Good Materials

Down links: 207 Good Materials 207 Good Materials 216 Box Columns

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Summary 1: Now, before we start the practical task of making a structural layout for a building, it is necessary to consider one more philosophical pattern: one which defines the process of construction that will make it possible to use the right materials and get the overall conception of the structure right.

Summary 2: The fundamental philosophy behind the use of pattern languages is that buildings should be uniquely adapted to individual needs and sites; and that the plans of buildings should be rather loose and fluid, in order to accommodate these subtleties.

Summary 3: We may define this attitude by saying that it is desirable to build a building in such a way that it starts out loose and flimsy while final adaptations in plan are made, and then gets stiffened gradually during the process of construction, so that each additional act of construction makes the structure sounder.

Summary 4: To begin with, such a structure allows the actual building process to be a creative act.

Summary 5: The builders do not know how to be relaxed, how to deal with earlier mistakes by later detailing; they do not know the proper sequence of events; and they do not, usually, have a building system, or a construction process, which allows them to develop this kind of relaxed and casual wisdom.

Summary 6: Build up the columns first, then fill them with the ultralightweight concrete; then build up the beams and fill them; then the vaults, and cover them with a thin coat of concrete which hardens to form a shell; then fill that shell with even lighter weight materials to form the floors; then make the walls and window frames, and fill them; and finally, the roof, again a thin cloth vault covered with a coat of concrete to form a shell - BOX COLUMNS, PERIMETER BEAM, WALL MEMBRANE, FLOOR-CEILING VAULTS, ROOF VAULTS.....

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