Reflections

I just walked through the city. People were everywhere. A different public space has become this past year. I was struck with such a sense that so many of your group projects are grossly disconnected from the reality of the street.

Have you been there lately?

Perhaps the most radical thing for architecture today is the intensity of reality, a hyper-focussed awareness of the everyday and a functional beautiful pragmatism to the tedium of the expected cacophony which is already normal. Maybe architecture should turn to the boring?
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Ammon, I think we're all struggling (my group at least) to find a methodology on where to start producing a vision and what to establish our grounding on. Personally, I have not dealt with such a scale (precinct) and im unsure of the scope of it. help please.

Also, just asking around, what IS the boundary of the precinct we are dealing with? I've been going through the city of melbourne's website and some documents call it the 'flinders gate precinct' and some call it 'st paul's precinct'. Should we establish that as a studio or can it vary per group? OR should we just take the boundaries of Collins, Elizabeth, Yarra and Russell Streets (boundaries for our small de facto set in week 2)??

Its too grounded...Its not grounded enough... Am feeling as if everything is all a bit conflicting - and yes, very, very confusing.