Tiled wall at Julian Street Inn

The exterior second-story diagonal checkerboard wall of concrete and hand-painted tiles, refined through six mockups to unify space without divisions.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Claims (2)

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The main job of any task of creating centers is always to melt away the divisions between things, unifying space through interlocking centers.
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Central insight from the tile design narrative, applicable to all center-making.
Mass produced tiles could not have achieved the fine-tuned adaptation to the whole that hand-made tiles achieved.
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Argument for craft-based, feedback-rich fabrication processes in architecture.