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In a World Where Buildings are Alive	

Architects are More Like Gardeners
LIVING
FUTURE
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ARIEL STEUER
TOM KUBALA
THE KUBALA WASHATKO ARCHITECTS
C E D A R B U R G , W I S C O N S I N
1. See how pattern writing can bring a new
kind of accuracy to your work.	

2. See how the process of Pattern Writing can
be Creative in its own right.	

3. Consider a New Definition of Beauty and
Inspiration.	

4. Recognize how Pattern Writing can bring
Beauty and Inspiration into a central role
in the making of buildings.
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Targets of Understanding1
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Chapter One:	

 	

 On Undividedness and Beauty
ChapterTwo:	

	

 	

 Can a Building be Alive enough to Smile?
ChapterThree:	

	

 Reduced to Tears
Chapter Four:	

 	

 The Dance that is a Pattern
Chapter Five:	

	

 	

 The Beauty of Becoming
Chapter Six:	

 	

 	

 Patterns’ Unfolding Potential
Chapter Seven:	

	

 To Beautify the Gaze
	

 	

 	

 	

 	

 	

 	

 	

 	

 Thoughts & Questions	

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1 On Undividedness and Beauty
“It is shown that both in
relativity theory and
quantum theory, notions
implying the undivided
wholeness of the universe
would provide a much more
orderly way of considering
the general nature of reality.”	

	

David Joseph Bohm
We presume	

that the world is undivided, 	

whole and meaningful,	

that a Unity of Creation 	

Exists and it is Beautiful.
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“Wholeness is grounded in
that which is fundamentally
conducive to life.”	

	

Stuart Cowan
Minnesota Tall Grass Prairie
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“Wholeness is grounded in
that which is fundamentally
conducive to life.”	

	

Stuart Cowan
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Undivided	

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Whole	

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Healthy	

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Beautiful	

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Alive
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2 Can a Building be Alive enough to Smile?
“People are not perfect
(except when they
smile).”	

Author Unknown
“All the statistics in the
world can’t measure the
warmth of a smile.”	

	

Chris Hart
Can a Building be Alive?
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What is it that makes a
Building Alive?
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How can I recognize one?
If a building can be alive…
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2 As architects, it eventually comes to this…
How can I make one?
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What’s stopping me?
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3 Reduced to Tears
“Our times are driven by the
inestimable energies of the
mechanical mind…”	

John O’Donohue
Reductionism’s Henchmen1
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The theory that every
complex phenomenon,
especially in biology or
psychology, can be
explained by analyzing the
simplest, most basic physical
mechanisms that are in
operation during the
phenomenon.	

	

STYLISTICTHINKING MECHANISTICTHINKING
“It deals in pure and
simple shapes, often at
the expense of problem
solving.”	

Robert A.M. Stern
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Surrounded
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“the first effect of the lines
is the only effect they will
ever have, no amount of
pondering will make them
glow”	

Robert C. Morgan
Beauty vs. Glamour
April 2014
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“There is an unseemly
coarseness to our times
which robs the grace from
our textures of language,
feeling and presence.”	

	

John O’Donohue
Surrounded Professionally
May 2014
Surrounded by Reductionism1
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What was a fully alive
ecosystem becomes…	

	

Leveled parcels of zoned uses connected to
customers and services by a vehicle
conveyance system.
Stylistic Thinking1
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concepts are usually fashionably avant-garde & architect-centric
A Style driven process starts with a concept
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Functions are made to fit the concept
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virtually ignoring the complex richness of Culture & Place
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1. forces designers to stop listening.	

2. is not easily shared.	

3. must over-simplify complexity.	

4. is deaf to ecological needs.	

5. lacks long term value.
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Stylistic Thinking
Mechanistic Thinking
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Descartes held that
non-human animals
could be reductively
explained as
automata.	

	

De homine, 1662
The digesting Duck of Vaucanson • 1738
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Mechanistically driven process
‘Rooms’ are often considered the real parts of a building
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Programmed Space
Programmed Space
Programmed Space
Programmed SpaceProgrammed Space
Programmed
Space
Programmed Space
Programmed Space
Programmed Space
Programmed Space
Programmed Space
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Space
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Space
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Space
Programmed Space
Circulation
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reduced to the measurement of its Energy Utilization Intensity
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“High Performance” buildings are often conceived as energy machines
1. fragments a larger continuity.	

2. discounts Feeling & Emotions.	

3. marginalizes Art & Beauty by definition.	

4. is often imposed on Nature.	

5. artificially separates Form from Function.
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Mechanistic Thinking
So, what way of thinking	

has a better chance at
producing a building 	

that is alive?
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The Dance that is a Pattern
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“…when we find ourselves
in a place of great beauty,
clarity, recognition and
excitement awaken in us. ”	

	

John O’Donohue
Eddy1
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A Pattern is a recognizable
dance between human activity
and the built and/or natural
environment.
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Eddy as PART1
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Thinking about how the world is organized.
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Eddy as a differentiation of the whole
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A Pattern is whole, in that it
excludes nothing and is
connected to everything.
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A Pattern can be archetypal,
crossing cultures and history.
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When a building is alive,
Patterns occur at all levels of
scale, nested in a continuous,
unbroken field.
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Do Patterns represent the
Authentic Parts of the 	

Built and Natural World?
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2 ways of seeing the PARTS of the world
AssemblyDifferentiation
Apply a TheoryBegin with the Whole
Spectator ConsciousnessConscious Participation
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Discovering Patterns
1. Observe everything, without abstraction.	

2. Hold what you observe in your mind.	

3. Feel where discontinuities and features occur.	

4. Name the discontinuities and features.	

5. Discover the reasons for their appearance.	

6. Propose a solution that resolves these forces.
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Center to Area Connection	

	

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 The Land Ethic	

	

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 Thread to a Pre-Settlement Ecology	

	

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 Portals to the Legacy	

	

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 Home Base	

	

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 Local Materials,Ways and Means	

	

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 Window to the Sun	

	

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 Rain isTreasure	

	

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 Wall of Noise	

	

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 Fresh Air Naturally	

	

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No SuchThing as Waste
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Working Home	

	

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Personal Home-Base	

	

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The Exec’s Parlor	

	

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Intern Niches	

	

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Kitchen in the Middle	

	

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Copy Cell	

	

	

Construction Process	

	

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Small Machines	

	

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Strike While Dormant	

	

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A Healthy Fear of Landfills	

	

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Scrap Bank	

	

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Posting a Scrounge List	

	

	

Details	

	

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RoughTrim	

	

	

Daily Work	

	

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Working at Low Power 	

	

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ConnectedThrough Record Keeping 	

	

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FromTree to Stove
Building to Land Connection	

	

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Park and Hide	

	

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Electric Roof	

	

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Positive Outdoor Space	

	

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Building Cluster	

	

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Forward Garden	

	

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Welcome Garden	

	

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Sheltered Edges	

	

	

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Gathering Under aTree	

	

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Seed Gathering Hall	

	

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Dialogue House	

	

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Inside-Out House	

	

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Leopold MemorialTrailhead	

	

	

Building Internal	

	

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Comfort Gradient	

	

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AcousticVariation	

	

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Don’tTurn on that Light!	

	

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Never too Far from Outdoors	

	

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Mudroom In-Between	

	

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Leopold Reading Room	

	

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Archival Core	

	

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Deep in Dialogue	

Organized by scale, not importance
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Center to Area Connection	

	

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 The Land Ethic	

	

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 Thread to a Pre-Settlement Ecology	

	

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 Portals to the Legacy	

	

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 Home Base	

	

5.	

 Local Materials,Ways and Means	

	

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 Window to the Sun	

	

7.	

 Rain isTreasure	

	

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 Wall of Noise	

	

9.	

 Fresh Air Naturally	

	

10.	

No SuchThing as Waste
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Working Home	

	

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Personal Home-Base	

	

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The Exec’s Parlor	

	

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Intern Niches	

	

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Kitchen in the Middle	

	

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Copy Cell	

	

	

Construction Process	

	

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Small Machines	

	

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Strike While Dormant	

	

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A Healthy Fear of Landfills	

	

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Scrap Bank	

	

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Posting a Scrounge List	

	

	

Details	

	

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RoughTrim	

	

	

Daily Work	

	

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Working at Low Power 	

	

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ConnectedThrough Record Keeping 	

	

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FromTree to Stove
Building to Land Connection	

	

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Park and Hide	

	

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Electric Roof	

	

13.	

Positive Outdoor Space	

	

14.	

Building Cluster	

	

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Forward Garden	

	

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Welcome Garden	

	

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Sheltered Edges	

	

	

18.	

Gathering Under aTree	

	

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Seed Gathering Hall	

	

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Dialogue House	

	

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Inside-Out House	

	

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Leopold MemorialTrailhead	

	

	

Building Internal	

	

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Comfort Gradient	

	

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AcousticVariation	

	

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Don’tTurn on that Light!	

	

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Never too Far from Outdoors	

	

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Mudroom In-Between	

	

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Leopold Reading Room	

	

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Archival Core	

	

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Deep in Dialogue	

Sustainability issues are solved along with all other issues
Aldo Leopold Legacy Center
16. GatheringTogether	

17. Staff Hearth	

18. Privacy Gradient	

19. Education Hall	

20. Gradient of Classroom Sizes	

21. Musical Suite	

22. Coming of Age	

23. Information is Like Food	

24. Sounds Like a Green Room	

25. Kitchen Party	

26. Home Away from Homelessness	

27. Small Child Care	

28.Written Word	

29.Archive
1. NationalTreasure	

2. Bike, Bus & Walk	

3. Parking Pockets	

4. Shuttle System	

5. Auto Underground	

6. The Dance of Delivery	

7. Open Green	

8. Building Shape	

9. New Front Door	

10. Family of Entrances	

11. Universal Access	

12.Trust in God, butTie your Camel	

13. Conference Capable	

14. Family ofVenues	

15.The Community Crossing
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16. GatheringTogether	

17. Staff Hearth	

18. Privacy Gradient	

19. Education Hall	

20. Gradient of Classroom Sizes	

21. Musical Suite	

22. Coming of Age	

23. Information is Like Food	

24. Sounds Like a Green Room	

25. Kitchen Party	

26. Home Away from Homelessness	

27. Small Child Care	

28.Written Word	

29.Archive
1. NationalTreasure	

2. Bike, Bus & Walk	

3. Parking Pockets	

4. Shuttle System	

5. Auto Underground	

6. The Dance of Delivery	

7. Open Green	

8. Building Shape	

	

10. Family of Entrances	

11. Universal Access	

12.Trust in God, butTie your Camel	

13. Conference Capable	

14. Family ofVenues	

	

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9. New Front Door
15. The Community Crossing
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New Front Door	

	

The bottleneck at the current front door
and lobby cannot be repaired without either
reducing the number of people utilizing that
entrance, or by greatly increasing the size of
the lobby, thereby altering forever its original
character and presence.
Problem Statement
Solution Statement Create a new prime door and lobby
sized appropriately to handle
anticipated population levels. Give the
door clear markings as to its function
and importance. Locate the new front
door within visual proximity of the
historic entrance.
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The Community Crossing	

	

With the contemplated addition of 	

15-20,000 sf of new facilities, it will be a
challenge to insure that the campus feels
like a single entity with various parts, not
the other way around.
Problem Statement
Solution Statement
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Establish a place where all paths cross.
Make this place adjacent to the new front
door. Give it a distinctive character, a strong
place on everyone’s cognitive map.
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Patterns as Poetry.	

The Creative Power of
Metaphor.
The hearer participates!	

Meaning is not imposed or
predetermined.
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“…a process must occur for
the metaphor to work
effectively…”	

John Hatcher
tenor vehicle
“LandscapeVisits theWriter”
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A pattern title for an in-
progress design of a Writers’
Retreat Center in Wisconsin.	

	

Offered by the team’s 	

Landscape Architect: Nancy Aten
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The Beauty of Becoming
“Architects are much too
concerned with the design of
the world, and not yet
concerned enough with the
generative processes that
create the world.”	

Christopher Alexander
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Nature models a living process: Morphogenisis
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from the Greek morphê:
shape and genesis: creation,
literally, beginning of the
shape
The process controls the
organized spatial distribution
of cells during the embryonic
development of an
organism.
even our understanding of this is evolving
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Gene expression vs. Genetic blueprint
intra-genome complexity gene-centric view
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Patterns’ Unfolding Potential
“…the beautiful offers us
an invitation to order,
coherence and unity.”	

	

John O’Donohue
1. Discover ALL the forces at play.	

2. Identify recurring conflicts, diagnosis.	

3.Write patterns, gain consensus.	

4. Produce pattern resolution map.	

5. Obtain feedback.	

6. Unfold Permutations.	

7. Narrow the Choices.	

8. Choose a Direction.
It is roughly similar for every one of our projects
Pattern Writing is a part of our overall design process	

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Order is not only helpful, its crucial, 	

promoting smooth unfolding
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1. NationalTreasure	

2. Bike, Bus & Walk	

3. Parking Pockets	

4. Shuttle System	

5. Auto Underground	

6. The Dance of Delivery	

7. Open Green	

8. Building Shape	

9. New Front Door	

10. Family of Entrances	

11. Universal Access	

12.Trust in God, butTie your Camel	

13. Conference Capable	

14. Family ofVenues	

15.The Community Crossing
16. GatheringTogether	

17. Staff Hearth	

18. Privacy Gradient	

19. Education Hall	

20. Gradient of Classroom Sizes	

21. Musical Suite	

22. Coming of Age	

23. Information is Like Food	

24. Sounds Like a Green Room	

25. Kitchen Party	

26. Home Away from Homelessness	

27. Small Child Care	

28.Written Word	

29.Archive
Organized by scale, not importance
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Unfolding… Site Constraints & Conditions
Setbacks
Protected Views
Sacred Ground
Untouchability 	

Gradient
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Unfolding… Probable Locations for the proposed Addition	

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Geometry meets Pattern
9. New Front Door	

	

Create a new prime
door and lobby sized
appropriately to
handle anticipated
population levels.
Give the door clear
markings as to its
function and
importance. Locate
the new front door
within visual
proximity of the
historic entrance.
Unfolding…
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60˚
New Auditorium
Geometry meets PatternUnfolding…
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Open Office
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Classroom
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Corridor
A16
West Living Room
A17
Loggia
A18
Corridor A7
Conference
B5
Corridor
D35
Coats
D36
Vestibule
Elevator 1
ThyssenKrupp
Seville 35
Oildraulic
D33
Upper Crossing South
Stair 1
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Link
D34
Balcony
Stair 3
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Existing
Skylight
Existing
Skylight
Line Of Roof
Existing
Skylight
Existing
Skylight
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Stair 2
up
2R
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Open Office
A9
Office
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Office
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Office
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Office
B2
Toilet
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D32
Upper Crossing
North
1’-9”
1’-10”
2’-0”
2’-1”
2’-1”
2’-1”
1’-9”
Upper Level Plan
New Front Door
Historic Entrance
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D15.1
Plenum
D12.1
Storage
D13.1
Storage
D14.1
Storage
B8
Corridor
ST
Cart
File
File
File
Flat
File
(5) New Adjustable
Shelves For Artifacts
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6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
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21 22 23
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New Ramp
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Ramp
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up
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18R
B14
B13
B11
Archives
B9
MHNS Office
B18
RE Storage
B6.1
Toilet
B16.1
RE Storage
B15.1
RE Storage
B19
B Mech.
B6
Classroom
B10
Classroom
B12
MHNS Storage
B15
Classroom B17
Electrical
B16
Classroom
C5
Classroom
C7
Classroom
C9
Classroom
C11
Classroom
C12
West Court Yard
D2
MHNS Storage
East Court Yard
D1
RE Storage
D4
Mech. North
D21
Kitchen
D11
Ramp
D10
Custodial
D26
Table/Chair
Storage
D12
Classroom
D13
Classroom
D14
Classroom
D15
Mech. South
D17
Women
Stair 1
D25
Cry Room
D27
Music
Storage
D30
Music Rehearsal
D29
Music Office
D28
Music Office
D23
Lower Crossing South
D16
Men
D5
Education Hall
B6.3
Storage
B10.1
RE Storage
D6
Lower Crossing North
D24
Auditorium
B20
Corridor
up
D8
Women
D9
Men
D22
Library
Unexcavated
UP
A Mech. 1A Mech. 2
Unexcavated
Existing Raised
Planter
ELEC. HD
Elec.
down
C13
Corridor
D6.1
Corridor
B20.1
Kitchenette
Elev 1
D7
Coats
D19
Elev.
Equip.
D18
AV/IT
Room
D20
Pantry
D3
Ramp
Stair 2
Stair 4
Stair 3
Rolling
Cart
Lower Level Plan
Geometry meets PatternUnfolding…
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To Beautify the Gaze
“Ultimately beauty is a
profound illumination of
presence, a stirring of the
invisible in visible form and 	

in order to receive this, we
need to cultivate a new style
of approaching the world.”	

	

John O’Donohue
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Writing Patterns requires a
new kind of education, one
steeped in the ability to
recognize wholeness when it
occurs.
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“Both the gaze that sees and
the object that is seen
construct themselves
simultaneously in the one act
of vision.”	

John O’Donohue
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“You are asked to record your
own inner feeling, your own
inner wholeness - and this is
used then as the measure of
the degree of life in some
system you are observing.”	

	

Christopher Alexander	

from ‘The Nature of Order’
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8 Thoughts & Questions
“What Beauty is can never
be finally said.”	

John O’Donohue
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Pattern Writing is a way
forward. The making of 	

Living Buildings demands 	

a Design Process 	

that is Alive.
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1. allows the subtlest kinds of information to
migrate, untrammeled, into the design/
construction process.	

2. organizes design intent.	

3. builds consensus amongst design team, client
group and stake holders.	

4. educates client who becomes a quality design
critic.	

5. stimulates visualization.
Pattern Writing
Within it’s outlook are ways to resolve many of the significant problems of our time.	

Operates in the everyday practical realm of doing and making.	

Its general approach is one of affirming life. Healing the built environment while
healing oneself.	

Its conclusions are being drawn from a wide diversity of sources. It is general
enough for artistic and scientific problems to merge.	

Relies on scientific rigor and a thirst for objective knowledge. 	

Relies on PROCESS. This Architecture unfolds through the operation of a
fundamental process similar to natural organic growth and maintenance dynamics.	

Because of its focus on a shareable language, the discussion of matters normally
considered ‘subjective’ becomes possible. Everyone can contribute.	

The maturation of one’s spiritual self is both a requirement and a benefit of Living-
Based Building. It offers a clear way of seeing the world.	

Requires acquiring the fundamental skill of unveiled, objective choosing. A skill basic
to learning anything well.
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In A World Where Buildings Are Alive, Architects Are More Like Gardeners

  • 1. In a World Where Buildings are Alive Architects are More Like Gardeners LIVING FUTURE
  • 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ARIEL STEUER TOM KUBALA THE KUBALA WASHATKO ARCHITECTS C E D A R B U R G , W I S C O N S I N
  • 3. 1. See how pattern writing can bring a new kind of accuracy to your work. 2. See how the process of Pattern Writing can be Creative in its own right. 3. Consider a New Definition of Beauty and Inspiration. 4. Recognize how Pattern Writing can bring Beauty and Inspiration into a central role in the making of buildings. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Targets of Understanding1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 4. Chapter One: On Undividedness and Beauty ChapterTwo: Can a Building be Alive enough to Smile? ChapterThree: Reduced to Tears Chapter Four: The Dance that is a Pattern Chapter Five: The Beauty of Becoming Chapter Six: Patterns’ Unfolding Potential Chapter Seven: To Beautify the Gaze Thoughts & Questions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 5. 1 On Undividedness and Beauty “It is shown that both in relativity theory and quantum theory, notions implying the undivided wholeness of the universe would provide a much more orderly way of considering the general nature of reality.” David Joseph Bohm
  • 6. We presume that the world is undivided, whole and meaningful, that a Unity of Creation Exists and it is Beautiful. 1
  • 7. 1 “Wholeness is grounded in that which is fundamentally conducive to life.” Stuart Cowan Minnesota Tall Grass Prairie
  • 8. 1 “Wholeness is grounded in that which is fundamentally conducive to life.” Stuart Cowan
  • 10. 1 2 Can a Building be Alive enough to Smile? “People are not perfect (except when they smile).” Author Unknown “All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.” Chris Hart
  • 11. Can a Building be Alive? 1 2 First things first…
  • 12. What is it that makes a Building Alive? 1 2 If so…
  • 13. 1 2 How can I recognize one? If a building can be alive…
  • 14. 1 2 As architects, it eventually comes to this… How can I make one?
  • 16. 1 2 3 Reduced to Tears “Our times are driven by the inestimable energies of the mechanical mind…” John O’Donohue
  • 17. Reductionism’s Henchmen1 2 3 The theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon. STYLISTICTHINKING MECHANISTICTHINKING “It deals in pure and simple shapes, often at the expense of problem solving.” Robert A.M. Stern
  • 19. 1 2 3 “the first effect of the lines is the only effect they will ever have, no amount of pondering will make them glow” Robert C. Morgan Beauty vs. Glamour April 2014
  • 20. 1 2 3 “There is an unseemly coarseness to our times which robs the grace from our textures of language, feeling and presence.” John O’Donohue Surrounded Professionally May 2014
  • 21. Surrounded by Reductionism1 2 3 What was a fully alive ecosystem becomes… Leveled parcels of zoned uses connected to customers and services by a vehicle conveyance system.
  • 23. 4 1 2 3 concepts are usually fashionably avant-garde & architect-centric A Style driven process starts with a concept 3
  • 24. Functions are made to fit the concept 4 1 2 3 virtually ignoring the complex richness of Culture & Place 3
  • 27. 1. forces designers to stop listening. 2. is not easily shared. 3. must over-simplify complexity. 4. is deaf to ecological needs. 5. lacks long term value. 4 1 2 33 Stylistic Thinking
  • 28. Mechanistic Thinking 1 2 3 4 Descartes held that non-human animals could be reductively explained as automata. De homine, 1662 The digesting Duck of Vaucanson • 1738 3
  • 29. 1 2 3 4 Mechanistically driven process ‘Rooms’ are often considered the real parts of a building 3 Programmed Space Programmed Space Programmed Space Programmed SpaceProgrammed Space Programmed Space Programmed Space Programmed Space Programmed Space Programmed Space Programmed Space Programmed Space Programmed Space Programmed Space Programmed Space Circulation
  • 30. 1 2 3 4 reduced to the measurement of its Energy Utilization Intensity 3 “High Performance” buildings are often conceived as energy machines
  • 31. 1. fragments a larger continuity. 2. discounts Feeling & Emotions. 3. marginalizes Art & Beauty by definition. 4. is often imposed on Nature. 5. artificially separates Form from Function. 1 2 3 4 3 Mechanistic Thinking
  • 32. So, what way of thinking has a better chance at producing a building that is alive? 1 2 3 4 3
  • 33. The Dance that is a Pattern 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 “…when we find ourselves in a place of great beauty, clarity, recognition and excitement awaken in us. ” John O’Donohue
  • 35. A Pattern is a recognizable dance between human activity and the built and/or natural environment. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 36. Eddy as PART1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Thinking about how the world is organized.
  • 37. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Eddy as a differentiation of the whole
  • 38. Slater’s Hammer: a dense nesting of patterns1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 39. A Pattern is whole, in that it excludes nothing and is connected to everything. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 40. A Pattern can be archetypal, crossing cultures and history. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 41. When a building is alive, Patterns occur at all levels of scale, nested in a continuous, unbroken field. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 42. Do Patterns represent the Authentic Parts of the Built and Natural World? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 43. 2 ways of seeing the PARTS of the world AssemblyDifferentiation Apply a TheoryBegin with the Whole Spectator ConsciousnessConscious Participation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 44. Discovering Patterns 1. Observe everything, without abstraction. 2. Hold what you observe in your mind. 3. Feel where discontinuities and features occur. 4. Name the discontinuities and features. 5. Discover the reasons for their appearance. 6. Propose a solution that resolves these forces. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 45. Center to Area Connection 1. The Land Ethic 2. Thread to a Pre-Settlement Ecology 3. Portals to the Legacy 4. Home Base 5. Local Materials,Ways and Means 6. Window to the Sun 7. Rain isTreasure 8. Wall of Noise 9. Fresh Air Naturally 10. No SuchThing as Waste 31. Working Home 32. Personal Home-Base 33. The Exec’s Parlor 34. Intern Niches 35. Kitchen in the Middle 36. Copy Cell Construction Process 37. Small Machines 38. Strike While Dormant 39. A Healthy Fear of Landfills 40. Scrap Bank 41. Posting a Scrounge List Details 42. RoughTrim Daily Work 43. Working at Low Power 44. ConnectedThrough Record Keeping 45. FromTree to Stove Building to Land Connection 11. Park and Hide 12. Electric Roof 13. Positive Outdoor Space 14. Building Cluster 15. Forward Garden 16. Welcome Garden 17. Sheltered Edges 18. Gathering Under aTree 19. Seed Gathering Hall 20. Dialogue House 21. Inside-Out House 22. Leopold MemorialTrailhead Building Internal 23. Comfort Gradient 24. AcousticVariation 25. Don’tTurn on that Light! 26. Never too Far from Outdoors 27. Mudroom In-Between 28. Leopold Reading Room 29. Archival Core 30. Deep in Dialogue Organized by scale, not importance Aldo Leopold Legacy Center1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 46. 1 2 3 4 Center to Area Connection 1. The Land Ethic 2. Thread to a Pre-Settlement Ecology 3. Portals to the Legacy 4. Home Base 5. Local Materials,Ways and Means 6. Window to the Sun 7. Rain isTreasure 8. Wall of Noise 9. Fresh Air Naturally 10. No SuchThing as Waste 31. Working Home 32. Personal Home-Base 33. The Exec’s Parlor 34. Intern Niches 35. Kitchen in the Middle 36. Copy Cell Construction Process 37. Small Machines 38. Strike While Dormant 39. A Healthy Fear of Landfills 40. Scrap Bank 41. Posting a Scrounge List Details 42. RoughTrim Daily Work 43. Working at Low Power 44. ConnectedThrough Record Keeping 45. FromTree to Stove Building to Land Connection 11. Park and Hide 12. Electric Roof 13. Positive Outdoor Space 14. Building Cluster 15. Forward Garden 16. Welcome Garden 17. Sheltered Edges 18. Gathering Under aTree 19. Seed Gathering Hall 20. Dialogue House 21. Inside-Out House 22. Leopold MemorialTrailhead Building Internal 23. Comfort Gradient 24. AcousticVariation 25. Don’tTurn on that Light! 26. Never too Far from Outdoors 27. Mudroom In-Between 28. Leopold Reading Room 29. Archival Core 30. Deep in Dialogue Sustainability issues are solved along with all other issues Aldo Leopold Legacy Center
  • 47. 16. GatheringTogether 17. Staff Hearth 18. Privacy Gradient 19. Education Hall 20. Gradient of Classroom Sizes 21. Musical Suite 22. Coming of Age 23. Information is Like Food 24. Sounds Like a Green Room 25. Kitchen Party 26. Home Away from Homelessness 27. Small Child Care 28.Written Word 29.Archive 1. NationalTreasure 2. Bike, Bus & Walk 3. Parking Pockets 4. Shuttle System 5. Auto Underground 6. The Dance of Delivery 7. Open Green 8. Building Shape 9. New Front Door 10. Family of Entrances 11. Universal Access 12.Trust in God, butTie your Camel 13. Conference Capable 14. Family ofVenues 15.The Community Crossing First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 48. 16. GatheringTogether 17. Staff Hearth 18. Privacy Gradient 19. Education Hall 20. Gradient of Classroom Sizes 21. Musical Suite 22. Coming of Age 23. Information is Like Food 24. Sounds Like a Green Room 25. Kitchen Party 26. Home Away from Homelessness 27. Small Child Care 28.Written Word 29.Archive 1. NationalTreasure 2. Bike, Bus & Walk 3. Parking Pockets 4. Shuttle System 5. Auto Underground 6. The Dance of Delivery 7. Open Green 8. Building Shape 10. Family of Entrances 11. Universal Access 12.Trust in God, butTie your Camel 13. Conference Capable 14. Family ofVenues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. New Front Door 15. The Community Crossing
  • 49. 9 New Front Door The bottleneck at the current front door and lobby cannot be repaired without either reducing the number of people utilizing that entrance, or by greatly increasing the size of the lobby, thereby altering forever its original character and presence. Problem Statement Solution Statement Create a new prime door and lobby sized appropriately to handle anticipated population levels. Give the door clear markings as to its function and importance. Locate the new front door within visual proximity of the historic entrance. First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 50. 5 The Community Crossing With the contemplated addition of 15-20,000 sf of new facilities, it will be a challenge to insure that the campus feels like a single entity with various parts, not the other way around. Problem Statement Solution Statement First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition Establish a place where all paths cross. Make this place adjacent to the new front door. Give it a distinctive character, a strong place on everyone’s cognitive map. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1
  • 51. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Patterns as Poetry. The Creative Power of Metaphor.
  • 52. The hearer participates! Meaning is not imposed or predetermined. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 “…a process must occur for the metaphor to work effectively…” John Hatcher tenor vehicle
  • 53. “LandscapeVisits theWriter” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A pattern title for an in- progress design of a Writers’ Retreat Center in Wisconsin. Offered by the team’s Landscape Architect: Nancy Aten
  • 54. 1 2 3 4 The Beauty of Becoming “Architects are much too concerned with the design of the world, and not yet concerned enough with the generative processes that create the world.” Christopher Alexander 5
  • 55. Nature models a living process: Morphogenisis 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 from the Greek morphê: shape and genesis: creation, literally, beginning of the shape The process controls the organized spatial distribution of cells during the embryonic development of an organism. even our understanding of this is evolving
  • 56. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gene expression vs. Genetic blueprint intra-genome complexity gene-centric view
  • 57. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Patterns’ Unfolding Potential “…the beautiful offers us an invitation to order, coherence and unity.” John O’Donohue
  • 58. 1. Discover ALL the forces at play. 2. Identify recurring conflicts, diagnosis. 3.Write patterns, gain consensus. 4. Produce pattern resolution map. 5. Obtain feedback. 6. Unfold Permutations. 7. Narrow the Choices. 8. Choose a Direction. It is roughly similar for every one of our projects Pattern Writing is a part of our overall design process 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 59. Order is not only helpful, its crucial, promoting smooth unfolding First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 60. 1. NationalTreasure 2. Bike, Bus & Walk 3. Parking Pockets 4. Shuttle System 5. Auto Underground 6. The Dance of Delivery 7. Open Green 8. Building Shape 9. New Front Door 10. Family of Entrances 11. Universal Access 12.Trust in God, butTie your Camel 13. Conference Capable 14. Family ofVenues 15.The Community Crossing 16. GatheringTogether 17. Staff Hearth 18. Privacy Gradient 19. Education Hall 20. Gradient of Classroom Sizes 21. Musical Suite 22. Coming of Age 23. Information is Like Food 24. Sounds Like a Green Room 25. Kitchen Party 26. Home Away from Homelessness 27. Small Child Care 28.Written Word 29.Archive Organized by scale, not importance First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 61. Unfolding… Site Constraints & Conditions Setbacks Protected Views Sacred Ground Untouchability Gradient First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 62. Unfolding… Probable Locations for the proposed Addition First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 63. Geometry meets Pattern 9. New Front Door Create a new prime door and lobby sized appropriately to handle anticipated population levels. Give the door clear markings as to its function and importance. Locate the new front door within visual proximity of the historic entrance. Unfolding… First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 64. 60˚ New Auditorium Geometry meets PatternUnfolding… First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 65. HS SEL ECT . dn 1R up 4R up 2R up 1R FIREPLACE UP UPUP UP UP DN BALCONY TERRACE down down 17R down down B3 Open Office B1 Classroom B4 Corridor A16 West Living Room A17 Loggia A18 Corridor A7 Conference B5 Corridor D35 Coats D36 Vestibule Elevator 1 ThyssenKrupp Seville 35 Oildraulic D33 Upper Crossing South Stair 1 D31 Link D34 Balcony Stair 3 dn 1R up 1R up 4R Existing Skylight Existing Skylight Line Of Roof Existing Skylight Existing Skylight Dn Stair 2 up 2R up 1R A8 Open Office A9 Office A10 Office A11 Office A12 Office B2 Toilet 3’-5” D32 Upper Crossing North 1’-9” 1’-10” 2’-0” 2’-1” 2’-1” 2’-1” 1’-9” Upper Level Plan New Front Door Historic Entrance First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition Geometry meets PatternUnfolding…1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 66. D15.1 Plenum D12.1 Storage D13.1 Storage D14.1 Storage B8 Corridor ST Cart File File File Flat File (5) New Adjustable Shelves For Artifacts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 21 22 23 16 20 New up New Ramp New Ramp HS SEL ECT . H C C D HC D D C H C R/ F R/ F up4R@ 6” rampup up up down up up 17R up up 18R B14 B13 B11 Archives B9 MHNS Office B18 RE Storage B6.1 Toilet B16.1 RE Storage B15.1 RE Storage B19 B Mech. B6 Classroom B10 Classroom B12 MHNS Storage B15 Classroom B17 Electrical B16 Classroom C5 Classroom C7 Classroom C9 Classroom C11 Classroom C12 West Court Yard D2 MHNS Storage East Court Yard D1 RE Storage D4 Mech. North D21 Kitchen D11 Ramp D10 Custodial D26 Table/Chair Storage D12 Classroom D13 Classroom D14 Classroom D15 Mech. South D17 Women Stair 1 D25 Cry Room D27 Music Storage D30 Music Rehearsal D29 Music Office D28 Music Office D23 Lower Crossing South D16 Men D5 Education Hall B6.3 Storage B10.1 RE Storage D6 Lower Crossing North D24 Auditorium B20 Corridor up D8 Women D9 Men D22 Library Unexcavated UP A Mech. 1A Mech. 2 Unexcavated Existing Raised Planter ELEC. HD Elec. down C13 Corridor D6.1 Corridor B20.1 Kitchenette Elev 1 D7 Coats D19 Elev. Equip. D18 AV/IT Room D20 Pantry D3 Ramp Stair 2 Stair 4 Stair 3 Rolling Cart Lower Level Plan Geometry meets PatternUnfolding… First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 67. First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 68. First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition Completed Project1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 69. Completed Project First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 70. First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition Completed Project1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 71. First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition Completed Project1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 72. First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition Completed Project1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 73. Completed Project First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 74. Completed Project First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 75. Completed Project First Unitarian Society Meeting House Addition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 76. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 To Beautify the Gaze “Ultimately beauty is a profound illumination of presence, a stirring of the invisible in visible form and in order to receive this, we need to cultivate a new style of approaching the world.” John O’Donohue
  • 77. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Writing Patterns requires a new kind of education, one steeped in the ability to recognize wholeness when it occurs.
  • 78. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 “Both the gaze that sees and the object that is seen construct themselves simultaneously in the one act of vision.” John O’Donohue
  • 79. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 “You are asked to record your own inner feeling, your own inner wholeness - and this is used then as the measure of the degree of life in some system you are observing.” Christopher Alexander from ‘The Nature of Order’
  • 80. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Thoughts & Questions “What Beauty is can never be finally said.” John O’Donohue
  • 81. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pattern Writing is a way forward. The making of Living Buildings demands a Design Process that is Alive.
  • 82. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1. allows the subtlest kinds of information to migrate, untrammeled, into the design/ construction process. 2. organizes design intent. 3. builds consensus amongst design team, client group and stake holders. 4. educates client who becomes a quality design critic. 5. stimulates visualization. Pattern Writing
  • 83. Within it’s outlook are ways to resolve many of the significant problems of our time. Operates in the everyday practical realm of doing and making. Its general approach is one of affirming life. Healing the built environment while healing oneself. Its conclusions are being drawn from a wide diversity of sources. It is general enough for artistic and scientific problems to merge. Relies on scientific rigor and a thirst for objective knowledge. Relies on PROCESS. This Architecture unfolds through the operation of a fundamental process similar to natural organic growth and maintenance dynamics. Because of its focus on a shareable language, the discussion of matters normally considered ‘subjective’ becomes possible. Everyone can contribute. The maturation of one’s spiritual self is both a requirement and a benefit of Living- Based Building. It offers a clear way of seeing the world. Requires acquiring the fundamental skill of unveiled, objective choosing. A skill basic to learning anything well. Healthy: Pragmatic: Optimistic: Robust: Disciplined: Dynamic: Cooperative: Fulfilling: Educational: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 …and Further Hints at a “World Where Buildings are Alive…”
  • 84. LIVING FUTURE T H A N K Y O U !STUDIO@TKWA.COM