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i don’t understand why everyone has to see plans to understand a building. when you ask people about their apartments, they tell you how one room is laid next to the other; if you ask them to draw the place, they will give a plan not an axon. who gives which corner of the bedroom leads to the toilet? are any of them actually cool to visit? they never see it in plan; why don’t they give you a sketch of the three generations of phone cables in their kitchen or the multiple shadows of their cat on the ceiling when the sun reflects from the tiled dome in the backyard?

the plan seems like a scheme that is organized around the value of land, not around the value of experience. they don’t want to see how it is to hang out in a an office, they only want to know how many desks can be crammed into a corner. i would think that the average tenant would be more excited about the view over his light table than the efficient approach to his cubicle from the boss’s corner office.

i haven’t looked at the requirements but i imagine that there is a list of plans and site maps that they want to see. i would rather send them images that convey only part of a story, the adjoining spaces of which they must fill in for themselves; did you see that image of jt’s blackbox? there is a note on the drawing that says ‘bottom of amphitheater’ or something. to me that is the most compelling image that we’ve got. it is just a message about where the theater is, then you have to cross reference it with the theater image elsewhere to learn what is happening. it’s compelling because it stirs the imagination and demands the viewer to take part in the process of construction – more so than rendering that proves the donor wall is visible from the sidewalk to the parking lot. since this project is a fantasy, there is an opportunity for any spectators’ opinion to become as ‘real’ of a component of the project as any text or doodle by one of the workers. -right-

if they force our hand by awarding us the contract to develop a set of cd’s for them, then of course we will fill in those spaces; we wouldn’t send them an email saying ‘uh, don’t y’all think it would be cool to leave that area of the development unfinished and just see what happens there?’ that is what we want to happen anyway, after it is built, but i would never dream that rioc would be stoked about missing wall sections or squinches – assuming they even noticed such absences.

i doubt they are going to build this shit anyway. when i was searching for maps and images online, i found a dozen other projects, each a few years apart, all for the same area and all for the same program. they haven’t built any of those yet. they are just fishing for ideas so they have something to convince real estate developers that building in southpoint is a viable investment of their cash. those developers will of course arrive with their own readymade design, which may crib a few attributes from the competition proposals. for an example of this see the world trade center site or that camino nuevo design that daly, genik stole from 3wg…have you seen that new york times link? that is the shit they are looking for. i don’t fear that we could come up with something like that even if we were trying and had jean wu on our team. so i am pretty sure that we aren’t going to have to open an office in new york in 3 months…

i am having a hard time staying focused on this project. -roosevelt?- yes. it might be more interesting if the program was more limited, like if it was just a museum about the development of the island or the history of the hospital, some concept that includes the individuality of that area. Instead they just want to pack in a shopping list of elements that will be appealing to investors. -right- I mean we could crank out something [fingers quotation marks] cool that would please them. Any monkey can throw together a suitable building – how hard is that? even we could do that, in the sense that we would break off some sexy renderings or views that dozens of other entrants will have, but that would serve little purpose towards meeting the goals of the work.group, by which i mean it would not add anything meaningful to the ongoing project…of the work.group. It would be preferable to have something which we could fold into marquis.