Talk:EBBT: Overview

Applying Alexander's Notes on the Synthesis of Form Process

I am going to get the ball rolling by trying to use the 2nd-level concepts from Maibritt's paper to suggest a list of misfits or requirements (positive expression of a misfit) for each of the six ecosystem principles. I hope the initial list with trigger additional ideas. Once we have completed all 6 of the ecosystem principles, the next step will be to:

• turn misfits into requirements (or conversely, decide to work with misfits)
• 'flatten' the requirements so that they have relatively the same scope and significance
• identify and remove any duplicates in requirements (we need a virtual 'Post It' board)
• identify the relationships between each requirement and the other requirements
• restate any requirements where the relationship does not suggest an underlying physical consideration (e.g., relationships by definition or logic)
• decompose the set of requirements into a relatively small number of sets (we may need some programming similar to the 'hill climbing' procedure that Alexander mentions in Appendix 2)
• further decompose each subset until we feel we have 'building blocks' that are internally coherent and independent from other subsets
• develop patterns out of each of these subset - the decomposition tree will suggest how these patterns relate to each other (the pattern language)