The Emergence Machine

Construction

abstract · architecture · Level 3 · E9

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Construction is the deliberate shaping of structures, leveraging the understanding of form and its relationship to matter, to create a designed outcome.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “construction” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “construction”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
construction
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL3L2L1L0ConstructionFormStructureMatterEnergyPatternSpaceE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesDesignL4InfrastructureL4JoiningL4NutL4PlumbingL4ConstructionL3FormL2StructureL2E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Form L2 (requires)
    Understanding form helps understand the structure of construction
  • Structure L2 (requires) architecture sense
    construction requires understanding structure as a foundational concept

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