The repo outgrew a single-project layout: the reusable form-language
template and the draft paper about the method were mixed in with
Ecuador-specific ref/narratives/docs, and a second real project (Harbor
House) had been growing inside templates/examples/ despite no longer
being just a template demo. Split into:
- method/ - the generalized form-language prompt template and the
paper about the method, project-agnostic
- projects/ecuador-museum/ - the original counter-proposal (ref/,
narratives/, docs/, unchanged in content)
- projects/harbor-house/ - promoted out of templates/examples/, now a
peer project with its own ref/narratives/docs, including previously
untracked pattern subset, narrative, and illustration material
Root CLAUDE.md now covers the shared method and repo-wide conventions;
each project gets its own CLAUDE.md with project-specific brief,
inputs, and status. Updated all internal path references (paper.md,
outline.md, per-project CLAUDE.md, settings.local.json). Dropped stray
scratch files superseded by proper copies (all.txt, the already-
converted pattern-language PDF).
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Sheffield/Harbor House drafting exposed two gaps: the template let a
historical stratum be anchored by a single celebrated/architect-authored
building (Park Hill) instead of a genuine building culture, and let
modern structural materials (reinforced concrete) into the vocabulary
without requiring a structural-necessity justification. Tightens the
HISTORICAL_STRATA placeholder guidance, the vocabulary/negative-constraint
instructions, and the Appendix instruction to close both gaps.
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Distills the two-step Salingaros prompting process (docs/salingaros-form-language-prompt.md)
that produced ref/Ecuadorian_Form_Language_Grammar.md into a reusable, placeholder-driven
prompt template for any region/site/typology, in templates/. Addresses failure modes not
present in the original worked example: unverified "search" claims, region-scale incoherence,
missing buildability/code-compliance disclaimer, and unscoped cultural-sensitivity risk around
sacred/ceremonial motifs.
Closes ecuador-vay.
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