Bruno Postle
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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 Dropped stray scratch files superseded by proper copies (all.txt, the already- converted pattern-language PDF).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>
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# Condensed Brief — Genuine Human-Needs Facts
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Distilled from `Muna Technical Bases for Stage 1.txt` (the official Stage 1 open
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call) and cross-checked against `Casa de la Memoria Andina - National Museum
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Narrative-Kimi.txt` (Salingaros's project-data-plus-narrative document). `Muna
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ANNEX-1_RulesMuseum_ENG.md` (letter-of-interest template) and
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`Muna ANNEX-2_RulesMuseum_ENG.md` (blank team-roster/portfolio tables) are
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confirmed administrative-only — no programmatic content, not used below.
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Everything below is what a human-centered counter-proposal actually needs.
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Discarded: team-qualification criteria, evaluation scoring rubrics, submission
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logistics (email addresses, ZIP/MD5 requirements, schedule) — these govern the
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competition process, not the building, and are irrelevant to narrative-writing.
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---
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## 1. FACTS
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### Institutional mission and history
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- The National Museum of Ecuador safeguards **more than 1.2 million cultural
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and heritage assets spanning 12,000 years of history** — the most important
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collection in the country.
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- Founded 1969 as the Guillermo Pérez Chiriboga Archaeological Museum and
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Galleries of the Central Bank of Ecuador (architect Hernán Crespo Toral).
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Relocated in 1995 to the Edificio de los Espejos, Casa de la Cultura
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Ecuatoriana, where it operates today (renewed 2015–2018).
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- **Core human-needs problem this building must solve**: the museum
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currently exhibits **less than 1% of its collection**, due to limited
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gallery space, insufficient museographic infrastructure, and inadequate
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environmental controls. This is a problem of access and stewardship, not
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merely square footage — it is the central justification for the new
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building and should be legible in the narratives (e.g. visible study/
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research spaces, rotating displays, more than one axis of encounter with
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the collection).
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- Purpose: consolidate the Museum as a cultural platform of national
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significance and a touristic reference for Quito (Quito is the first
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UNESCO World Heritage City), reinforcing cultural identity and social
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belonging.
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### Site
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- **13,004.65 m²** plot, southwest corner of **Av. Eloy Alfaro and Av. de la
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República**, Iñaquito parish, Quito — Pichincha, Ecuador.
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- Part of the **"La Pradera" Urban Action Unit**, envisioned as anchor of a
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future pedestrian boulevard connecting public facilities, green areas, and
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recreational spaces.
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- Diagonally across from **La Carolina Park** (~400,000 visitors/month) —
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one of Quito's most frequented public spaces.
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- Transit: direct access to **La Carolina Metro station** (~10,000+ daily
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passengers), plus nearby Trolleybus and Express bus lines.
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- **Numeric discrepancy flagged, not silently resolved**: the official brief
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states the site as **13,004.65 m²**; Salingaros's narrative document
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rounds this to **"13,000 m²"**. Both describe the same site — the
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difference is rounding, not a conflicting figure. Recommend the chassis
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document (`ecuador-i9e`) adopt the official **13,004.65 m²** as the
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citable figure and treat "13,000 m²" as the same site referred to loosely
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in prose.
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### Building
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- **Minimum 25,000 m²** built area.
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- Height: capped at four stories (per the pattern subset's Number of Stories
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discussion, which cites "the established four-story height limit" as a
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given planning constraint, not something the brief text itself states
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explicitly, but treated in the pattern language as a fixed rule).
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- Broad program categories named by the brief: **exhibition rooms,
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conservation and research areas, educational spaces, public areas, and a
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landscape plan** strengthening the relationship with the urban
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environment.
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- **No detailed room-by-room spatial program exists in the Stage 1
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documents** — square-meterage per gallery, storage capacity, or a formal
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space list is not specified. Salingaros's narrative document supplies the
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only project-side elaboration currently available (four levels of
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~6,250 m² each, footprint under 50% of the site, a building complex of
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archaeological/historical/artistic/temporary-exhibition-and-education
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wings plus a taller central hall) — this is design proposal, not official
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brief, but is the most concrete program data in hand and should carry
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forward into the chassis document.
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### Process (context only, not design-relevant)
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Two-stage international open call; Stage 1 (credentials/portfolio) deadline
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17 Feb 2026; Stage 2 (schematic design) winner receives USD 450,000. This
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counter-proposal is independent of the competition and not bound by its
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process — included here only so the "why now" context is on record.
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---
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## 2. THE NATIONAL COLLECTION
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The brief's framing must not be reduced to a bare scale number: this is what
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visitors, school groups, staff, and community/indigenous stakeholders will
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actually encounter inside the building. The National Collection is organized
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into five reserves:
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### Archaeology Reserve — 62,103 pieces
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From early lithic tools — including obsidian projectile points — through
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Manteño stone seats and the emblematic **Tolita Sun**. Spans the cultures and
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societies that developed in what is now Ecuador.
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### Colonial and Republican Reserve — 5,353 pieces
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Colonial altarpieces; sculptures by **Bernardo de Legarda**; drawings,
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paintings, and devotional works from the republican period, notably pieces
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by **Joaquín Pinto**.
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### Modern and Contemporary Art Reserve — 2,538 works
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Key figures of Ecuadorian art including **Luis A. Martínez**, **Araceli
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Gilbert**, and other leading 20th- and 21st-century artists.
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### Human Sciences Library — ~210,000 bibliographic holdings
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Books, journals, newspapers, maps, atlases, and rare printed materials, many
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patrimonial, dating from **1480 to the present**. Includes the **Jacinto
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Jijón y Caamaño** and **Isaac Barrera** collections. Strengths in social
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sciences, arts, and national history. **A major, currently under-served
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holding in its own right — not an adjunct to the galleries.**
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### Historical Archive of the National Museum — 918,673 documents
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Colonial manuscripts through the early 20th century, plus photographic
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collections, musical scores, sound and radio recordings, cartography,
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posters, and other documentary materials essential to the study of Ecuador's
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historical development.
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---
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## Flag for the chassis-extraction task (`ecuador-i9e`)
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Salingaros's narrative document names only **three** collection wings
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(archaeological, historical, artistic) — it does not clearly place the
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**Human Sciences Library** (~210,000 items) or the **Historical Archive**
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(918,673 documents), two of the five reserves and very large holdings. This
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condensed brief deliberately does not resolve that placement — it is
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`ecuador-i9e`'s job to decide and record where these two reserves live in
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the building (e.g. folded into/adjacent to the historical wing as a reading
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room/study center, or given independent presence), since the Staff narrative
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(librarians/archivists) and Community narrative (researchers accessing
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patrimonial material) both need something concrete to describe.
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The site-area rounding discrepancy (13,004.65 m² vs "13,000 m²") is flagged
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above and should be settled once, in the chassis document, rather than
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re-litigated per narrative.
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