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Here's some elements I plan on Putting in the Layout

The Notebook paper is layered text: Basically reads...

It is the Binary... ... The 1 & 0 ...it is not what it truly is... off/on? even that is too complex. It is the passing of a threshold

Subtle and tiny... ...mighty it can bring nations to submission.

The circle thingy is a tape roll casting a shadow.
It's kinda sketchy and edgy. (there is a sketchy setting you can use in Sketchup to make things look wierd like that. I figured with your design idea with the string Andrew, you and I could complement a loose feel. Combined with Theo's idea of using cubist forms, the constrast could really pull off something nice.


Josh

Boundaries

Lots of careful thought in that, looks simple, but it is decisively not.

There and Back

After all of the events, the rest of the trek was much less interesting. It was highlighted by checking out the boat dock a burring of edges in no uncertain terms as one leaves the shore to be supported by the docks, you are undoubtedly on water, not a very traditional place to be for a person, although some cultures have been formed by living on boats, the Hoklo people of Macao and Hong Kong are some of the most famous examples, it has been said some of these people live their entire lives from birth to death on a boat, never setting foot on land.

On the way was Altgeld Hall noting the addition for the hundredth time, it doesn't really match. It is the undesirable in Edge Conditions! It is neither matching the building nor is it different enough to make a statement. In fashion it would clash. In Architecture it is unpleasing. Perhaps it is simply the reality of a state funded project, not enough money budget so things are left off.

A different sort of condition at Thompson point; we didn't spend all our state allotted money therefore we needed to throw these decorative sails on the building! If we are headed towards a new reality of increasing government projects and decreasing private ones, we need to re-examine how we fund these projects.

Saluki Way

Saluki Way.

The project everyone including myself loves to hate. I mean really it cost hundred plus million and we as current students will never experience it. Ouch. Of course the other buildings on campus are the same, they must have been planned, executed, and finished during the tenure of hundreds of student cycles. One of the things we should keep in mind about our designs as architects is the sobering reality that we may never see them finished, or even started in our lives. Yet it is gratifying, because it is a slice of immortality too. Although I've said nothing lasts forever, even the pyramids, their 6000 year existence is as good bid for immortality as anything else under the sun.

Allyn Hall Serendipity

Learning a little about the Administration of the School of Art and Design from the three students in the Glove Factory, I headed to Allyn Hall to talk to the Adviser Valerie about the possible opportunity of showing student work in their galleries. She was helpful and also told me about the possibilities of showing work at Faner Hall. In Allyn Hall was concrete terrazzo with a honeycomb pattern. It struck me as interesting because Allison, one of the students I talked to at the Glove Factory was in the process of developing three dimensional crochet designs based from honeycomb wasp nests. I felt it was funny because Betsey, my wife, is getting into crochet herself! Things that are interconnected are always fun to ponder about, why does coincidence happen? Or is there such a thing as fate? Odd to manifest in the Hexagon, a shape that had garnered much attention in the Architectural world as a viable design. A 3-Dimensional hexagonal shape is very concise, it is like a circle with a large amount of volume for it's radius, but it's flattened edges allow them to be pushed together without any space between them.

So where was I?

After visiting with the Art students I really didn't know where to go for there. I randomly found these cool people, I didn't want things to go all boring. At the intersection of Mill and Washington I was just heading south without thought. I decided to go in a direction I've never gone from that intersection and headed east. Ending up behind the Rec Center, unsurprisingly! I did find the local soup kitchen though, I had no idea that it was right there. But when someone sprays this on the sidewalk on the way to it:

...it is really no surprise I didn't notice it before. If there is a current underclass in America, it is the homeless, there are millions of them, they are also beneath our collective radar.

There was also a very interesting edge condition happening on the road to the parking lot behind the rec center.

I've wondered who maps edge conditions in the real world. Here is a real world example put out by a consulting firm.

Anyhow, the road was all busted up and beat to hell , then there was a narrow concrete strip and then the road looked all nice and neat again. Next to this was the sign "End of City Maintenance". I surmise that the nice section was under SIUC's jurisdiction. Naturally there are these little borders all over the place but I think that was only the third time I've ever paid attention to see one. It is rare, like one side of drive being rained on, and the other side being dry. It happens everywhere, all the time, but few experience it.