There is always a single dragonfly hovering in the center atrium. Maybe it gets its own floor pattern? It's red.
Metamorphic stones onsite are 2.5 Billion years old. Making it the oldest accessible building stone in Africa. 1.5 billion years older than any NYC/NJ bedrock.
The way the sky is framed right now from the center atrium before the roof- we'll never see again.
Bags of cement, carried on heads.
Stair needs to be modified. Will build higher, angle it up and do it what we can to make it feel like an unfurling plant... Verified with crew that the stair will be an unfolding flower.
I've expressed to the guys onsite that my view is that this building is addressing the issues that come from a rainforest becoming agrarian land... The building itself is tall and feels like you are under a large canopy.
Watched the water come from the exact locations of the future downspouts in vertical columns long after the rain had subsided... the 'fountains' will flow naturally after the rainstorms for 1/2 hour or so while the water is released.
The prevailing winds come from the east so they naturally enter the facade with the most fenestration.
One bee sting per day. Radiates up the limbs into the torso... My white skin is like the moon. They come after me at night. Queen was recently displaced. Looking for a new home.
The effect of all the materials together is that they mimic the colors of wet local soil as it looked when cut by the excavator, from bluish grays, browns, and rich red clay.
Leaning towards red on all metal paint (steel trusses, exterior windows and doors, misc interior metals), red like FLW. Primed steel red. Iron oxide red. Rust red. Clay tile red. Really ties the room together.
The Maridadi (Kiswahili for fashionable, nice looking) Many things I like are not Maridadi. Terrazzo is not maridi according to a worker. It is considered old school. I say, “I like old school and in America, this amount of terrazzo is like a jillion dollars. This is luxury."
The formwork wood is Eucalyptus and soft like string cheese to the point where it's unusable for any interior application as a reuse project. It will likely be repurposed on another site or used as firewood.
Stair will be punctured by multiple 200mm glass blocks for light placed at random. Inside the core, looking up, 5 meters above, a little constellation.
Each fountain will behave differently. One is quiet, a trickle. One is a bubbler. One has movement like a class 1 rapid. The last is an umbrella, reflecting the form of the building. Each is an indigenous creature- a tilapia, a red tail monkey, a hornbill, a dragonfly.
Laid out planter with masonry blocks based on intuition. Came back on Friday and it was built. I second-guessed it overnight- I was going to rearrange... now it's a concrete wall. Lesson- be careful what you draw in concrete.
We leave room for window washer and maintenance so I offset the planter by 500mm from the interior face of the facade block wall for clearance... provide deep soil for window washer so they won't crush the plants.
I go to the owner of the door fabricator and ask, 'where does the mahogany come from.' He says, 'Uganda, but they get it from the Congo'... According to my quick research, 90 percent of logging in the Congo is illegal. We won’t be using mahagony. Ever again.
I asked what the word for 'moon' was in Swahili. A long pause amongst everyone. Then- 'It's too hard to explain.” Love that.
A worker told me, I saw this building on TV. It's in America. Pointing-This building. I wish I knew what he was talking about.
Roads are impassible after a rain. Like, really.
We are planting seeds. The builders are the hovering dragonfly, a harbinger of good things to come. :)

There is always a single dragonfly hovering in the center atrium. Maybe it gets its own floor pattern? It's red.

Metamorphic stones onsite are 2.5 Billion years old. Making it the oldest accessible building stone in Africa. 1.5 billion years older than any NYC/NJ bedrock.

The way the sky is framed right now from the center atrium before the roof- we'll never see again.

Bags of cement, carried on heads.

Stair needs to be modified. Will build higher, angle it up and do it what we can to make it feel like an unfurling plant... Verified with crew that the stair will be an unfolding flower.

I've expressed to the guys onsite that my view is that this building is addressing the issues that come from a rainforest becoming agrarian land... The building itself is tall and feels like you are under a large canopy.

Watched the water come from the exact locations of the future downspouts in vertical columns long after the rain had subsided... the 'fountains' will flow naturally after the rainstorms for 1/2 hour or so while the water is released.

The prevailing winds come from the east so they naturally enter the facade with the most fenestration.

One bee sting per day. Radiates up the limbs into the torso... My white skin is like the moon. They come after me at night. Queen was recently displaced. Looking for a new home.

The effect of all the materials together is that they mimic the colors of wet local soil as it looked when cut by the excavator, from bluish grays, browns, and rich red clay.

Leaning towards red on all metal paint (steel trusses, exterior windows and doors, misc interior metals), red like FLW. Primed steel red. Iron oxide red. Rust red. Clay tile red. Really ties the room together.

The Maridadi (Kiswahili for fashionable, nice looking) Many things I like are not Maridadi. Terrazzo is not maridi according to a worker. It is considered old school. I say, “I like old school and in America, this amount of terrazzo is like a jillion dollars. This is luxury."

The formwork wood is Eucalyptus and soft like string cheese to the point where it's unusable for any interior application as a reuse project. It will likely be repurposed on another site or used as firewood.

Stair will be punctured by multiple 200mm glass blocks for light placed at random. Inside the core, looking up, 5 meters above, a little constellation.

Each fountain will behave differently. One is quiet, a trickle. One is a bubbler. One has movement like a class 1 rapid. The last is an umbrella, reflecting the form of the building. Each is an indigenous creature- a tilapia, a red tail monkey, a hornbill, a dragonfly.

Laid out planter with masonry blocks based on intuition. Came back on Friday and it was built. I second-guessed it overnight- I was going to rearrange... now it's a concrete wall. Lesson- be careful what you draw in concrete.

We leave room for window washer and maintenance so I offset the planter by 500mm from the interior face of the facade block wall for clearance... provide deep soil for window washer so they won't crush the plants.

I go to the owner of the door fabricator and ask, 'where does the mahogany come from.' He says, 'Uganda, but they get it from the Congo'... According to my quick research, 90 percent of logging in the Congo is illegal. We won’t be using mahagony. Ever again.

I asked what the word for 'moon' was in Swahili. A long pause amongst everyone. Then- 'It's too hard to explain.” Love that.

A worker told me, I saw this building on TV. It's in America. Pointing-This building. I wish I knew what he was talking about.

Roads are impassible after a rain. Like, really.

We are planting seeds. The builders are the hovering dragonfly, a harbinger of good things to come. :)