bruno/MuNa

Bruno Postle f864004e0a Reorganize repo into method/ + projects/{ecuador-museum,harbor-house}

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scratch files superseded by proper copies (all.txt, the already-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).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-28 08:37:50 +01:00

4.3 KiB

Raw Permalink Blame History

Harbor House — Travellers' Inn / Homeless-Relief Hostel, Sheffield

Paths below are relative to this directory (projects/harbor-house/) unless stated otherwise. For the generalized method and repo-wide conventions shared with other projects, see the root CLAUDE.md.

What this project is

Harbor House is a travellers' inn intended to relieve pressure on homeless services, sited in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Unlike the Ecuador museum project (a public-advocacy counter-proposal responding to a real open call), this project's origin brief is thin: "a travellers' inn to relieve pressure on homeless services" in Sheffield, with scale and other programmatic detail left to reasonable assumption rather than sourced from an external brief document — see the "Note on method" at the top of docs/sheffield.md for what was assumed versus sourced. It exists primarily as the second validation project for this repo's generalized method and form-language template (see root CLAUDE.md), proving the pipeline generalizes beyond its Ecuador origin to an unrelated typology and region.

Inputs (`ref/`)

harbor-house-pattern-language.txt — the project-specific pattern subset (Alexander/Ishikawa/Silverstein patterns such as TRAVELER'S INN, SLEEPING IN PUBLIC, COURTYARDS WHICH LIVE), the core design-constraint input for narrative writing, parallel to the Ecuador project's A Pattern Language Ecuador National Museum.md.

Form language (`docs/sheffield.md`)

Generated using method/form-language-prompt-template.md — this is the template's second worked example (the Ecuador form-language grammar, projects/ecuador-museum/ref/Ecuadorian_Form_Language_Grammar.md, was the first). Supplies the climate script for Sheffield, a form vocabulary drawn from South Yorkshire/Pennine building history, composition syntax, and color/ornament systems, to be combined with the pattern subset in the narrative-writing prompt. Unlike the Ecuador worked example, this document was generated with real web search available, so climate figures and precedents are sourced inline rather than drawn from training-data recollection alone — see its own "Note on method" section.

Deliverable

narratives/sheffield-narrative.md — the experiential design narrative for Harbor House, grounded in the pattern subset and form language above. Unlike Ecuador's four stakeholder viewpoints, this project currently has a single narrative, not split by stakeholder (visitor/staff/etc.) — no multi-viewpoint pass has been done here yet.
docs/sheffield.docx — a pandoc export of the narrative for sharing (not committed to the repo, regeneratable, same convention as Ecuador's counter-proposal.docx).
docs/images/originals/ — two ChatGPT-generated illustration contact sheets (9-panel storyboards walking through "a day at Harbor House": arrival, threshold, hearth, courtyard, gallery, shared meal, places apart, sleeping neighbourhoods, evening) grounded in the narrative. harbor-house-storyboard-draft.png and harbor-house-storyboard.png are two passes at the same 9-scene storyboard (the latter adds a title card and slightly revised captions); it's not confirmed which, if either, is meant to be final — unlike Ecuador, there's no illustration-prompts.md equivalent recording the prompts that produced these, and no split into one image-per-scene at full resolution + compressed top-level copy (Ecuador's docs/images/ convention).

Status

Less mature than the Ecuador project: pattern subset, form language, and one narrative exist, plus two draft illustration contact sheets. Not yet done, if this project is to reach parity with Ecuador's pipeline:

Decide whether a single narrative is sufficient for this project's purpose, or whether multiple stakeholder viewpoints (e.g. resident, staff/caseworker, neighbor) are wanted.
Reconcile the two storyboard images (pick one, or regenerate) and decide whether to adopt Ecuador's per-scene illustration-prompt convention (docs/illustration-prompts.md + one image per placeholder) instead of a single contact-sheet image.
No public-facing combined presentation document (Ecuador's docs/counter-proposal.md equivalent) exists yet — currently the narrative and images are separate deliverables, not merged into one.

4.3 KiB Raw Permalink Blame History