Supplementary Context Essay Index
Type B appendices are self-contained context essays. Each gathers the historical, standards, or theoretical background that grounds a chapter’s argument but would interrupt it if carried in the main text, and each can be read on its own. The essays are referenced from the chapters they support.
Five essays are registered below.
| Essay | File | Context it grounds |
|---|---|---|
| Text as Building Medium: Non-Graphic Construction Knowledge in Historical Practice | supp-context-tmhr | How buildings were specified and reconstructed from text rather than drawings — across Greek proportion systems, Japanese kiwari, and Vietnamese craft practice — grounding the floor-plan-as-text argument in Chapters 2 and 8. An accompanying citation ledger records the sources. |
| Dimensional Modularity and ISO 2848 Grounding | supp-context-ch8–dimensional-modularity-and-iso-grounding | The modular-coordination standard ISO 2848 and Australian construction practice that situate the 25 mm dimensional finding of Chapter 8 (Section 8.19). |
| Packing-Efficiency Metrics | supp-context-ch8–packing-efficiency-metrics | The isoperimetric and spatial-efficiency literature underpinning the CEI, EEI, and BEI metrics of Chapter 8 (Section 8.42). |
| Polyomino Grammar | supp-context-ch8–polyomino-grammar | Polyomino combinatorics, dihedral-group symmetry, and shape-grammar precedents for the canonicalisation used by the Chapter 8 generator. |
| Topological Coupling | supp-context-ch8–topological-coupling | Space-syntax and adjacency-graph theory grounding the coupling matrix and its HARD, SOFT, and ABSENT classes in Chapter 8 (Section 8.33). |