It’s strange, the way just a mention of a certain name, even ten years after the last time you saw each other, can bring back memories; or rather, transport you to an alternate reality, just for a crazy moment.
Found the f-book page of a friend, a former friend. Saw photos of the past few years, […]
April 25th, 2010
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Good meeting today, following last week’s cross-check review debacle. Sometimes you need to fail to start over.
Okay, not quite that bad, but I think it made me let go of a number of assumptions and caveats that I had been hanging onto doggedly, and dogmatically.
So over the weekend I had my Laputa moment (the castle, […]
April 21st, 2010
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Intro
This project is an assessment of suburban and exurban housing characteristics in terms of ecological performance, in order to define more clearly the gap between resource and energy consumption of existing housing stock, and a hypothetically sustainable level of resource and energy consumption.
In response to this performance gap, I propose a series of individual house-scale […]
April 12th, 2010
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