Reflection Waveforms
Impedance contrast
Layer interface
Thin features
The reflected is often more dominant than the reflector.
“Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.” – T. Harv Eker
Corner Store
Shiner bock
We now buy gift cards
Downtown grocery
Simultaneously arranged in geometric relationships of multiple perspective, the city offers complex ambiguous message amalgamations of opacity/transparency and signs/reflections. At certain positions, three-dimensional space is broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form, flattened into a kind of cubist realism.
“Rollin’ through the city and we hide behind the tints.” – Macklemore
Floral Traits
Transfer vector
Object of romance
Reproductive structure
The lovely blossoming of angiosperms elicits a human response of unconditional beauty and pleasure.
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” – Victor Hugo
Infrastructure
Requisite physical system
Organizational facility
Enterprise operation
Much of the developed world is formed around ossified infrastructure. It is expensive to maintain and improve extensive existing infrastructure. The city creates its own inertia, as infrastructure generates more infrastructures that are similar. What currently subsists limits adaptability to progress.
“Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They’re the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.” – Rick Yancey
Spiraea
Arching stems
Cascading flowers
Foundation planting
My old house features a yard full of legacy plants that bloom in a progression of color and texture.
“Use spirea in a mixed or shrub border, as a groundocver, in a rock garden, or as hedging, depending on growth habit.” – Steve Aitken
Discursive Rationalism
Beyond this fragmentation
Individual interaction
Mediations and rectifications
A large reflective architectural structure in the city helps us to grasp recursive qualitative distinctions. The search for causes in a complex circumstance always has a reaction on the task of description.
“Above all we must recognize the fact that new experience says no to old experience, otherwise we are quite evidently not up against a new experience at all.” – Gaston Bachelard
Residential Canal
Water conveyance
Synthetic reservoir
Seasonal variations
A desirable river resource can be augmented by building a series of small extensions into the surrounding embankments.
“Stay focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.” – Israelmore Ayivor
Roux House
Iconic venue
Gastropub hot spot
Cosmetic in nature
Fading signs painted on the sides of buildings often outlive their subject matter. The city is in constant flux as a physical response of occasion cadence at an organic level.
“We’re tying this all together, these chef-driven meals with delicious sweet treats and cocktails.” – Ian Vaughn
Reductive Niche
Dynamic rhythm
Equivalent equilibrium
Position channel
Exteriority not merely is, but becomes known when the city absorbs the subject as part of an abstract pattern. At such moments, visual amalgamation seems quite desirable as an extraction of pure extension.
“The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.” – Piet Mondrian
Exit Only
Way out
Leaving a place
Exclusively inevitably
Approaching uncertainty at high speed is an occurrence of direct intuitive observation capable of abridgement to a sensational formula.
“An exit is just an easy way out.” – Anthony T. Hincks