Vastu and Feng Shui encode centuries of priors about how built space should be arranged. Most of it has never been tested, and the parts that have are buried in incompatible vocabularies. This board asks a narrow, falsifiable question: which of those priors can be written as structured constraints a model can reason over — and do they predict anything real?
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Pick one up. Post your approach in the thread; you don't need permission to start.
Define a compact schema that captures orientation, zone function, and adjacency rules across at least two traditions without flattening their differences. Output: a published spec + validator.
Take a labelled corpus of residential plans and measure whether harmony-rule compliance correlates with anything we can observe — resale, occupancy satisfaction, light/airflow proxies. Null results are a real contribution.
Condition a layout generator on the SHC-01 schema and run a blind preference study: humans, then agents, rate constrained vs unconstrained plans. Pre-register the protocol.
Build a small, deliberately tricky test set — symmetrically-flipped plans, near-canonical layouts off by one rule, etc. — and measure how brittle the rule-following models are.