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# Harbor House — Travellers' Inn / Homeless-Relief Hostel, Sheffield
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Paths below are relative to this directory (`projects/harbor-house/`)
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unless stated otherwise. For the generalized method and repo-wide
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conventions shared with other projects, see the root `CLAUDE.md`.
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## What this project is
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Harbor House is a travellers' inn intended to relieve pressure on homeless
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services, sited in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Unlike the Ecuador museum
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project (a public-advocacy counter-proposal responding to a real open
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call), this project's origin brief is thin: "a travellers' inn to relieve
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pressure on homeless services" in Sheffield, with scale and other
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programmatic detail left to reasonable assumption rather than sourced from
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an external brief document — see the "Note on method" at the top of
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`docs/sheffield.md` for what was assumed versus sourced. It exists
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primarily as the **second validation project** for this repo's generalized
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method and form-language template (see root `CLAUDE.md`), proving the
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pipeline generalizes beyond its Ecuador origin to an unrelated typology and
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region.
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## Inputs (`ref/`)
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- `harbor-house-pattern-language.txt` — the project-specific pattern
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subset (Alexander/Ishikawa/Silverstein patterns such as TRAVELER'S INN,
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SLEEPING IN PUBLIC, COURTYARDS WHICH LIVE), the core design-constraint
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input for narrative writing, parallel to the Ecuador project's
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`A Pattern Language Ecuador National Museum.md`.
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## Form language (`docs/sheffield.md`)
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Generated using `method/form-language-prompt-template.md` — this is the
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template's second worked example (the Ecuador form-language grammar,
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`projects/ecuador-museum/ref/Ecuadorian_Form_Language_Grammar.md`, was the
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first). Supplies the climate script for Sheffield, a form vocabulary drawn
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from South Yorkshire/Pennine building history, composition syntax, and
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color/ornament systems, to be combined with the pattern subset in the
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narrative-writing prompt. Unlike the Ecuador worked example, this document
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was generated with real web search available, so climate figures and
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precedents are sourced inline rather than drawn from training-data
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recollection alone — see its own "Note on method" section.
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## Deliverable
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- `narratives/sheffield-narrative.md` — the experiential design narrative
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for Harbor House, grounded in the pattern subset and form language above.
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Unlike Ecuador's four stakeholder viewpoints, this project currently has
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a single narrative, not split by stakeholder (visitor/staff/etc.) — no
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multi-viewpoint pass has been done here yet.
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- `docs/sheffield.docx` — a pandoc export of the narrative for sharing (not
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committed to the repo, regeneratable, same convention as Ecuador's
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`counter-proposal.docx`).
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- `docs/images/originals/` — two ChatGPT-generated illustration contact
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sheets (9-panel storyboards walking through "a day at Harbor House":
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arrival, threshold, hearth, courtyard, gallery, shared meal, places
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apart, sleeping neighbourhoods, evening) grounded in the narrative.
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`harbor-house-storyboard-draft.png` and `harbor-house-storyboard.png` are
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two passes at the same 9-scene storyboard (the latter adds a title
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card and slightly revised captions); it's not confirmed which, if
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either, is meant to be final — unlike Ecuador, there's no
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`illustration-prompts.md` equivalent recording the prompts that produced
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these, and no split into one image-per-scene at full resolution +
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compressed top-level copy (Ecuador's `docs/images/` convention).
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## Status
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Less mature than the Ecuador project: pattern subset, form language, and
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one narrative exist, plus two draft illustration contact sheets. Not yet
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done, if this project is to reach parity with Ecuador's pipeline:
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- Decide whether a single narrative is sufficient for this project's
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purpose, or whether multiple stakeholder viewpoints (e.g. resident,
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staff/caseworker, neighbor) are wanted.
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- Reconcile the two storyboard images (pick one, or regenerate) and decide
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whether to adopt Ecuador's per-scene illustration-prompt convention
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(`docs/illustration-prompts.md` + one image per placeholder) instead of
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a single contact-sheet image.
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- No public-facing combined presentation document (Ecuador's
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`docs/counter-proposal.md` equivalent) exists yet — currently the
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narrative and images are separate deliverables, not merged into one.
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