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method:staking-out-with-flagsstaking out with flags
Using flags on bamboo poles to mark building edges and corners on the actual site, allowing direct perception of the building volumes.
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- Chapter 5 of Volume 3 of The Nature of Order, discussing how living process generates positive space and volume on the land through structure-preserving transformations.
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- The practice of laying out streets, lots, and house positions directly on the real terrain using stakes rather than drawings, as done at Santa Rosa de Cabal.
- Placing hundreds of flags on poles across the site to physically walk out and visualize the public hall and spatial structure before construction
- Specific technique of using white, yellow, red flags on six-foot bamboo poles to visualize buildings on the land.
- The illusion of fixed stability produced by choices of layout, masking the underlying dynamics.
- Quantum-physics-inspired notion of a direct connection between matter and the I-plenum, allowing centers to reveal the I.
- How a room's need for light and view determines the building envelope.
- Hisae Hosoi's description of the experience when flags were placed on the Eishin site.