ca..ca..ca..cuttin'

I have begun to assemble the frame. First, the floor frame and then onto the walls.

Black Box/C.C. beginnings

Above are measured drawings of the black box. I will building the room out of 4' X 8' Oriented Strand Board (OSB) sheets, 2X4 X8' Spruce studs, yellow zinc wood screws, and 8X8X16 concrete cinder block.

Water and Architecture: I have turned to a number of sources of inspiration, local and beyond, for the design of the black box. One is the story of the biblical flood, and Noah's Ark. Second is the Kabbah, the room built by Abraham for Ishmael. And third are two buildings in North Point Douglas, one recently built, and the other as old as the first developments of the Point Douglas neighbourhood in the 1870's. For each of these examples, I focus on the allegories of water as a destructive and creative force in Architecture. The different relationships between water and Architecture are complex, and dynamic. Time has permitted that this relationship change, mutate, develop, even contradict the first contacts between water and each of these buildings. How is this relationship going to be examined in the black box?



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1. Noah and his sons constructing the ark, after God's design. 2. Michaelangelo depicting the flood and the destruction of humanity. 3 & 4. Flooding in the Harem and around the Kabba. 5 & 6. Flooding all thoughout Mecca, inside the passageway between the two mounts. 7. The Barber house, in NPD, built by businessman E.L. Barber in 1865. 8. circa 100 years after, we have this example of housing in NPD.


images sources:
kabba: http://www.hajjguide.org/old_rare_pictures.htm
noah: http://www.beloit.edu/~nurember/book/images/Old%20Testament/index.htm, http://www.geocities.com/ulrich_utiger/gen4.html
NPD: Gregory Beck Rubin