Dom-ino House
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.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What it is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is the Dom-ino House, and how does it differ from a single built house? definition
- Is the question about the concept or a specific building? boundary
Name
The name.
Name
Name.
- What does the name Dom-ino refer to? definition
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Structure Structure.
Frame
Concrete frame.
Frame
Frame.
- How does the slab-and-column frame work? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Walls
Free walls.
Walls
Walls.
- Why does the frame free the walls from load-bearing? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Influence Influence.
Modernism
Modernism.
Modernism
Modernism.
- How did the Dom-ino House influence modern architecture? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Open plan
Open plan.
Open plan
Open plan.
- How did it enable open-plan design? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Context.
Purpose
Original purpose.
Purpose
Purpose.
- What housing problem was the concept meant to solve? provenance
- Is the information accurate? boundary
Legacy
Legacy.
Legacy
Legacy.
- How is the Dom-ino House regarded in architecture today? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.BLT
What it is Filled
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.
Why it exists Filled
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.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Concrete frame
- Columns not walls
- Standardised housing idea
- Modernist influence
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- 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.
Only with a human decision
- Using protected drawings or images in published work.
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.
Moral aspects Filled
- The concept shaped mass housing; honest history helps judge its social effects.
- Credit for ideas should go to their authors and collaborators accurately.
Who is affected
- Architectural historians
- Students
- Rights holders of the archive
Owners Filled
Steward
The public: an idea in architectural history; archives and foundations hold the original drawings.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q811979 - registry parent class
related
- architectural concept - related
- Le Corbusier
- load-bearing wall construction
- modern open-plan design
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.dom-ino-house
- Wikidata: Q5289711 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5289711)
Direct properties required Filled
- author: Le Corbusier note
- idea: concrete frame, free walls note
- registry parent: built structure note - as an architectural concept
Recognition required Filled
- Concrete slab-and-column frame diagram
- The Dom-ino House model
- It is a concept and model, not one built house; later villas applied its ideas
- A skeletal diagram of stacked flat concrete slabs on thin columns with a side staircase and no structural walls.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept
- relay its structural idea
- relay its influence
- distinguish it from a built house
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Treating it as one built house
- Overstating its immediate use
- Confusing the concept with later villas
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Building codes for concrete frames
Context of use required Filled
- Serving as a model for a standardised concrete housing frame.
- the diagram
- derived open-plan designs
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q5289711: Dom-ino House - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Dom-Ino House - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should derived designs be separate entries?
- How should the concept be linked to buildings?
- How should its influence be scoped?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q5289711/spec.json