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modumatics Modular Infrastructure for Inclusive Housing Tran Thien Toan Ngo · PhD Dissertation

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Chapter 2: Literature Review and Theoretical Framework

  • Person-environment fit: competence-press dynamics (view)
  • Lawton-Nahemow zone model: competence-press space with blocked adjustment (view)
  • Separation of concerns: monolithic vs layered systems (view)
  • Shearing layers of the built environment (layer lifetimes) (view)
  • Nominal to effective optionality funnel (view)
  • Six conditions for manageable change (view)
  • Chapter 2 argument map (view)
  • Gregor-Hevner knowledge contribution framework (view)
  • Hevner’s DSR three-cycle view (view)
  • Meta-requirements traceability network (view)
  • Near-decomposability: block-diagonal interaction structure (view)
  • Containing vs transmitting interface behaviour (view)
  • Life-course trajectory divergence (view)
  • Permutation explosion: independent vs coupled decision variables (view)
  • Three interface types in housing adaptation (view)
  • Burden accumulation across interface sequence (view)

Chapter 3. Theory: Modularity and Complexity

  • Chapter 3 theory map (view)
  • CAS feedback loops in the housing adaptation domain (view)
  • Modularity constructs: interface-governed interaction density (view)
  • Schematic Model of a Module (view)
  • Platform architecture: from requirements to verification (view)
  • Design-theory scaffold (after Gregor and Jones 2007) (view)

Chapter 4: Methodology

  • DSR cycle architecture (view)
  • Four-layer data pipeline architecture (view)
  • Evaluation traceability map (view)
  • Thesis alignment with Hevner’s three-cycle DSR framework (view)
  • Validity threat matrix (view)

Chapter 5: A Queryable Schema for Accessibility Standards

  • Five-layer standardisation schema architecture (view)
  • Five-stage serialisation pipeline (view)
  • Resolution rate profile by dimension (view)
  • Resolution rate by clause class (view)
  • Progressive schema layer contribution (view)
  • External benchmarking coverage (view)
  • Primitive ablation information loss (view)
  • Threshold sensitivity: polysemy ratio across frequency cutpoints (view)
  • Cross-channel fragmentation: text-figure normative coverage overlap (view)
  • Design Science Research iteration history for the standardisation schema (view)
  • Deontic force decomposition: three-path honest reframing (view)
  • Strongly coupled primitive co-occurrence pairs (view)
  • Literature positioning: four-stream intersection of the standardisation schema (view)
  • SDA foundational primitive taxonomy (view)
  • Artefact suite dependency chain with handoff contracts (view)

Chapter 6: A Governed Kernel Architecture for Housing

  • The Governed Kernel Architecture: three layers and the governed instance library (view)
  • The stratified vocabulary: seven primitives, seven composites, ten operators (view)
  • Twelve-pair boundary network with interaction differential heatmap (view)
  • Verification sequence DAG (view)

Chapter 7: A Formal Notation for Floor Plans

  • Two-layer notation architecture (view)
  • Cell taxonomy by free-edge count (view)
  • Three-plane stratification with entity types and verb families (view)
  • Local and global grids across Shape, Form, and Instance (view)
  • RecPol EBNF production rules and LL(1) decision points (view)
  • RecPol syntax by example: coordinates, joints, and free-edge counts (view)
  • Raw and canonical form with the canonicalisation operator (view)
  • Composite shape construction (worked example, S1) (view)
  • Composite construction (abstract concept) (view)
  • Lateral attachment of two distinct shapes via edge selection (view)
  • Reflective self-attachment with the canonicalisation operator (view)
  • Lanes and permeability flags as receptacle-prefix components (view)
  • Permeability matrix: conditions in which two receptacles may overlap (view)
  • Object exclusivity cases: disjoint, adjacent, and overlapping configurations (view)
  • Instance placement walk-through (faithful worked example, RecPol syntax) (view)
  • Instance placement (clean conceptual: Place, Mirror, Rotate) (view)
  • PlaniSyn three-layer architecture with tag types and interaction mapping (view)
  • Verification sequence constraint encoding (HC-6C) (view)

Chapter 8: Evidence from a Census of Australian Floor Plans

  • Geographic and market coverage of the merged corpus (view)
  • Corpus construction data flow (view)
  • Space-category frequency distribution (745-plan corpus) (view)
  • Base-module lift over the reporting-convention null, by cohort (view)
  • Most frequent dimension values in the building cohort (view)
  • Module lift across matching tolerances, building cohort (view)
  • Module lift by product tier (view)
  • Space-category connectivity frequency heatmap (view)
  • Space-category coupling network (745-plan census) (view)
  • Hard- and soft-constraint adjacency segregation subgraph (view)
  • Generator constraint funnel: from all polyominoes to feasible packings (view)
  • The dihedral symmetry group and canonical form (view)
  • Representative arrangement permutations from the generator (view)
  • Representative packing permutations showing port and attachment semantics (view)
  • Meso-tier module synthesis (view)
  • The four handoff contracts from the empirical substrate to the generator (view)

Chapter 9: Generating Documented Dwelling Variants

  • Procedural generation pipeline stages (view)
  • The generator prototype: end-to-end run flow (view)

Chapter 10: Demonstration and Evaluation

  • Trajectory tree (S0 → S4 → {S5a, S5b}) (view)
  • State progression: footprints (S0 to S4) (view)
  • Fork path comparison (S5a vs S5b) (view)
  • Standards-interpretability per-state profile (view)
  • Modular fit (Module-Inheritance Ratio) per-state metrics (view)
  • Per-event workflow burden across the trajectory (view)
  • Evaluation surface (cross-state EM-09-01..04 composite, 2×2 panel grid) (view)

Appendices

The appendix-data and supplementary-context appendices contain illustrative figures that are not numbered into the main-text figure sequence. See the appendix data index for the full appendix inventory.

  • Appendix Figure: Cross-chapter figure-traceability matrix (view)
  • Appendix Figure: Space-category coupling: classification thresholds and the required-adjacency spine (view)
  • Appendix Figure: Requirements-design-evaluation traceability flow (no orphan in any direction) (view)
  • Appendix Figure: PlaniSyn notation architecture: three layers, four interaction types, and the three-level Nesty hierarchy (view)
  • Appendix Figure: Figures-channel resolution rate by ambiguity dimension (view)
  • Appendix Figure: Lexical polysemy burden by entity: head-anchored WordNet sense counts (view)
  • Appendix Figure: Modularity-definition corpus: screening funnel and domain distribution (view)
  • Appendix Figure: Packing-fitness index distributions across 100 canonical packings (view)