01/12: Map versus Plan

A brief post today, wrapping up documentation for the Medellin armature project. First, a bit of site analysis. At a certain scale the world plan seems inappropriate. Map would seen to indicate a bit more freedom, a bit more looseness resulting from trying to represent a territorial scale. Even design moves, taken at this scale,... Continue Reading →

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01/11: The Writing of Place

A few weeks ago I visited a reservoir in Virginia, an artificial lake created to cool a nearby nuclear power plant. What the dam accomplished was to drastically raise the water level, creating a horizontal plane which cuts across the landscape and registers the topography as defined by the shoreline. As the water level rises... Continue Reading →

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