{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.dom-ino-house","code":"thing-q5289711","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q5289711/","name":"Dom-ino House","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.BLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"An influential architectural concept devised by the architect Le Corbusier, a diagram for a simple reinforced-concrete structural frame of floor slabs supported on slender columns with a staircase, leaving the walls free of load-bearing duty; the name plays on the domino game and mass production. The Dom-ino House was a proposal and model for standardised, quickly built housing rather than a single built house, and it shaped modern open-plan design.","purpose":"Let an agent explain the Dom-ino House concept, relay its structural idea and influence from architecture sources, and distinguish it from a specific building and from later works, treating it as a design model.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Concrete frame","Columns not walls","Standardised housing idea","Modernist influence"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What it is.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is the Dom-ino House, and how does it differ from a single built house?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about the concept or a specific building?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"name","name":"Name","description":"The name.","findings":[{"id":"name-finding","name":"Name","description":"Name.","questions":[{"text":"What does the name Dom-ino refer to?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"structure","name":"Structure","description":"Structure.","layers":[{"id":"frame","name":"Frame","description":"Concrete frame.","findings":[{"id":"frame-finding","name":"Frame","description":"Frame.","questions":[{"text":"How does the slab-and-column frame work?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which references are standard?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"walls","name":"Walls","description":"Free walls.","findings":[{"id":"walls-finding","name":"Walls","description":"Walls.","questions":[{"text":"Why does the frame free the walls from load-bearing?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"influence","name":"Influence","description":"Influence.","layers":[{"id":"modernism","name":"Modernism","description":"Modernism.","findings":[{"id":"modernism-finding","name":"Modernism","description":"Modernism.","questions":[{"text":"How did the Dom-ino House influence modern architecture?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"openplan","name":"Open plan","description":"Open plan.","findings":[{"id":"openplan-finding","name":"Open plan","description":"Open plan.","questions":[{"text":"How did it enable open-plan design?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"Context.","layers":[{"id":"purpose","name":"Purpose","description":"Original purpose.","findings":[{"id":"purpose-finding","name":"Purpose","description":"Purpose.","questions":[{"text":"What housing problem was the concept meant to solve?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the information accurate?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"legacy","name":"Legacy","description":"Legacy.","findings":[{"id":"legacy-finding","name":"Legacy","description":"Legacy.","questions":[{"text":"How is the Dom-ino House regarded in architecture today?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the presentation neutral?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain the Dom-ino concept as a structural frame diagram and its influence on modern architecture.","Cite the architect, period and published sources when describing it."],"mustNot":["Present the Dom-ino House as a single built house or a specific address.","Attribute later buildings to the concept without evidence of the link.","Reproduce archive drawings or images in ways their rights holders have not allowed.","Overstate how widely it was built in its own time."],"requiresHuman":["Using protected drawings or images in published work."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["The concept shaped mass housing; 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