I am interested in this site and the work of AFH. I approach the problem from a slightly different angle.
I believe in assisting the indigent in great need of suitable amenities and architectural infrastructure, but have no project, really, other than a lateral chain of reasoning which I have been following in my thought since 1998.
I follow an argument which identifies the essence of architecture as being proportion/volume, and the essence of ideal architecture as being ideal proportion/volume.
For the sake of argument I see the University of Cambridge as being an ideal environment. It is stable, prosperous, rational and educated.
I then seek to quantify the élan of Cambridge in a semi-mathematical expression of numbers.
These numbers can be abstracted and applied anywhere - to a building, to a world atlas, to a globe of the Earth - and by sympathy Cambridgeize the building or atlas or globe with the aesthetics of the principles at work there.
This brings élite qualities and milieux to parts of the world deprived - for a number of reasons - of stability, prosperity, rationality and education.
In an attempt to make my chain of reasoning clear and rigorous I have written a draft of an essay, dated 26 September 2011, which may be seen here.
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