Integration

Nice meeting tonight with Shelby the Master of Experience and Nancy the Industrious Architect. Our initiative towar integration paid off nicely with new drawing and elevations defining many of the dangling participles of the design.  The elements are coming together very well and a feeling of wholeness has begun to permeate the design. One choice now leads naturally to the next, always a good sign that you are on the right track. 

Nancy has moved compellingly past industriousness and has begun to display a creative side. He evocation of light and dark as applied to the entry hall was inspiring, suggesting that the entry hall in shadows performed as a transitional space, with the lighter surrounding rooms pulling you into the house.  Heady stuff.

Steve stepped forward too, in the form of new sketches for the kitchen uppers much closer to his original inspiration. the working drawings had drifted to the banal, but he was able to reassert a creative randomness to the layout that brought back the excitement to the design.

Shelby spoke well again for various parts of the experience of living, a real strength of his. He is able to imagine house the shell will function to contain the life.

Together, the three of them are gelling into a balanced and effective design team, crafting together an integral vocabulary for the building. Very cool.

there is something emerging from this process, something about the way layers of information push and pull against one another until they all fit the frame. I can't quite articulate it yet, but it's coming.