The north-facing city garden
Buy nothing yetKeep them as tests until one of them earns a purchase.
Put two of them side by side.
Every option here is a list of changes against the plan as it stands, not a copy of it. Correct the plan — move the fence to where it actually is — and every option moves with it rather than quietly describing a garden that is no longer there.
Nothing kept yet.
Test a change on Try a change and keep the ones worth holding on to. Two or three is the useful number: enough to see what differs, few enough to read.
Every column is the same scene with one option's changes applied, read at the same hour, on 30th October, for something growing here. That is this month's own date. Summer and winter hours are the solstice days, counted on the hour inside this use's usual hours. They are one representative day each, not a total for the year, and not money.
Forecasts, side by side
3 rows cannot be answered by any of them yet.
Summer and winter hours are one representative solstice day each, counted on the hour inside this use's usual hours. They are not a total for the year and they are not money.
None of these has been tried yet. The numbers are the model, run again on each option.
| Reading | As it is now |
|---|---|
| Direct sun at this hour | 0 |
| What it takes to do | nothing |
| Wind at the spot | 0.6 mph |
| Confidence | 0 |
| Still unanswered | 4 still open |
| Usable hours, summer solstice | 0 h |
| Usable hours, winter solstice | 0 h |
- Direct sun at this hour. Only As it is now can be answered on this; the rest are waiting on something that has not been measured. As it is now: 0.
- What it takes to do. Only As it is now can be answered on this; the rest are waiting on something that has not been measured. As it is now: nothing.
- Wind at the spot. Only As it is now can be answered on this; the rest are waiting on something that has not been measured. As it is now: 0.6 mph.
- Confidence. Only As it is now can be answered on this; the rest are waiting on something that has not been measured. As it is now: 0.
- Still unanswered. Only As it is now can be answered on this; the rest are waiting on something that has not been measured. As it is now: 4 still open.
- Usable hours, summer solstice. Only As it is now can be answered on this; the rest are waiting on something that has not been measured. As it is now: 0 h.
- Usable hours, winter solstice. Only As it is now can be answered on this; the rest are waiting on something that has not been measured. As it is now: 0 h.
3 rows cannot be answered by any of these yet. That is a missing measurement rather than a tie, so it stays on the board.
- Privacy: No observer has been placed yet. Privacy is a question about who can see in from where, and until one is marked there is nothing to answer.
- Walk from the door: No doorway is marked on this plan, so there is nowhere for a route to start. Mark the door you actually come out of — nothing here will guess at one, because a route length invented from a guess is still printed in feet.
- Clear of the walking: Nothing on this plan is marked as an area, so there is none to measure.
Nothing here is ranked, and there is no score. Every option is read against the same hour and the same use, from the plan as it stands right now — correct the plan and all of these move with it, because an option is a list of changes rather than a copy of the garden.
What is kept
What you decide
Keep, Refine, Reverse or Escalate. This is your choice. The model supplies the evidence and does not pick one of these for you.
Nothing recorded yet. A missing choice is not a Keep.
A demonstration does not keep a decision. Map your own place and the choice stays on this device.