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 Dropped stray scratch files superseded by proper copies (all.txt, the already- converted pattern-language PDF).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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# School Group / Children's Narrative — Casa de la Memoria Andina
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*Viewpoint: a school group — teacher, chaperones, and children from roughly
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six to sixteen years old — visiting the museum for the day.*
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For the shared facts underlying everything below — site data, the
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CR1/OP2/OP4 color and ornament systems, materials strata, and the full
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named-realm mapping — see `ref/project-chassis.md`. This narrative extends
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the school-group moments already present in `narratives/01-visitor.md` (the
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Civic Atrio sized to absorb school groups, the Great Hall stair as
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gathering point) and the educator spaces described in
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`narratives/02-staff.md`; it does not redescribe those rooms differently,
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only from a child's eye level and pace.
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---
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## Arrival: the bus, the atrio, the count
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The bus stops where service and drop-off traffic is kept visually
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subordinate to the entrance portal, exactly as `narratives/01-visitor.md`
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describes for all visitors — no separate "school entrance" is needed,
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because the Civic Atrio was already sized, per that narrative, to "absorb
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school groups and a daily attendance in the tens of thousands." A teacher
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doing a headcount before the portal has the low sitting walls and planted
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terraces (pattern 106 Positive Outdoor Space) to gather thirty children
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without spilling into the street, and the activity pockets lining the
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atrio's edge — the kiosk, the bookstall, the sheltered benches (pattern
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124 Activity Pockets) — give restless children something to look at while
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the count happens twice.
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## Threshold, at child height
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The zaguán's staged transition — street to portal to cool dim passage to
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sudden sunlit patio, described fully in `narratives/01-visitor.md` — reads
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differently to an eight-year-old than to an adult: the change from bright
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street to shadowed passage to bright patio again is a more dramatic
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sequence of thresholds when your own vantage point is lower. Ornament
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density peaking at the portal (`ref/project-chassis.md` §1's OP2 rule) puts
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the chakana-derived stepped mouldings and door pulls closest to the ground
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right where the portal is thickest with detail — which is also, at a
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child's height, where they are easiest to see and touch.
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## The Great Hall: the stair as the day's gathering point
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`narratives/01-visitor.md` describes the main staircase as "a room in its
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own right... where school groups assemble, talks are given" (pattern 133
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Staircase as a Stage). For a school group this is the anchor of the entire
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visit: the broad, shallow steps near the floor function as tiered seating
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built into the architecture itself (pattern 202 Built-In Seats — tested,
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per that pattern, for a spot people actually want to sit in, not merely
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one that looks like seating). A guide can address thirty or sixty children
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at once without a microphone, and — because the perimeter of the hall
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"drops to a human register" (`narratives/01-visitor.md`) — the alcoves and
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window seats around its edge let a chaperone keep a wandering child in
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sight without leaving the group. From the upper landings, repeated views
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back to the entrance patio (again per the Visitor narrative) mean a child
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who gets briefly separated can re-orient by sight, toward a place, not a
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floor number or a sign.
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## Moving through the collections at a child's pace
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The building thoroughfares (pattern 101 Building Thoroughfare, 4.5–6 metres
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wide per `ref/project-chassis.md`) are wide enough that a school group
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moving as a loose cluster does not block individual visitors, and the
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"several parallel loops" `narratives/01-visitor.md` describes — a group can
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peel off into the archaeological loop while another group is in the
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historical Corredor of Time — mean two school groups from different towns
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never have to queue behind each other through a single forced route.
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In the archaeological wing, the small gold piece "in a low, protected
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niche at close range" (`narratives/01-visitor.md`) is exactly the kind of
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object a child can approach at their own height without a rope barrier
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looming overhead; the monumental stone in its taller vaulted chamber gives
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the same group an experience of scale in the other direction. The
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restrained trapezoidal door-thresholds mentioned there are subtle enough
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that a class doesn't need them explained to feel a room has changed
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register.
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Along the Corredor of Time (the historical wing, per
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`ref/project-chassis.md` §2), the periodic common-room expansions
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described in the Visitor narrative — "where groups can rest and rejoin" —
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are where a school group actually stops for its scheduled break: built-in
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seating (pattern 202), daylight, and a view, sized for a class rather than
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a single family. A teacher can hold a short discussion here without
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leaving the route or needing a separate room booked in advance.
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## The education wing: workshops as the day's second half
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Per `narratives/02-staff.md`, the education wing holds the educators'
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preparation room, materials store, and office, opening onto the same court
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the café faces. For the school group, this wing is where the day's
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structured workshop happens — object-handling sessions using teaching
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replicas prepared by the educators described in the Staff narrative,
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in a room scaled and furnished for groups of thirty rather than the
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individual-visitor scale of the galleries. Because the educators can watch
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the Civic Atrio and Great Hall stair through window bays
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(`narratives/02-staff.md`), a workshop can start the moment a group
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arrives without a chaperone having to go looking for staff.
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## Outdoor time: patios as recess, not just scenery
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Every named court in this building is a real outdoor room, not a view
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seen through glass (pattern 115 Courtyards Which Live), and for a school
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group that matters practically: the Patio of Origins and the Garden of the
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Arts (`ref/project-chassis.md` §2) are places a class can be released to
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move, sit, and eat a packed lunch between gallery sessions, under cover if
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an afternoon storm arrives, per the same corredor-shelter
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`narratives/01-visitor.md` describes for all visitors. A tired six-year-old
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gets a change of pace and daylight before the next room, not another
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corridor.
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## What this avoids
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Per `ref/critique-failures.md`, school groups are the stakeholder most
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exposed to two named failures of the winning proposal: **inhuman scale**
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(failure #7 — "look how small the people are compared to the mass") and
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**illegible circulation** (failure #10 — nobody able to tell what kind of
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building they're in). Every element above — the human-register hall
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perimeter, the built-in stair seating, the named realms in place of floor
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numbers, the child-height ornament at the portal — is a direct,
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pattern-grounded answer to those two failures specifically, not a generic
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"child-friendly" gesture.
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