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When exceptionally well made, in acknowledgement of a material's capacity and attune to the conditions of it's landscape, it is from this rigor that Architecture has the tendency to draw out the more dormant parts of our being.   An ignition of the driver that sparks curiosity -    a seeking of the essential simplicity of things as they are.

"But where is the surface of a hole? I once believed that the surface of a hole is level with the surface of the ground around it. From obser­vation I have come to realize that this is not true… A hole has only sides and a bottom from which it extends infinitely upward, like a shaft of light: and as the earth revolves, it moves with great care and precision between the stars."

~ Richard Shelton, The Other Side of the Story

 

An excavation, the geometrically described hole, is the place of beginning.  Let's dig.