Monday Development

Suspending One's Isolated Perception of Distant Objects, midpoint between County Line.

The Tampa Bay, which the Howard Franklin Bridge is crossing is just not enough to indicate sense of transition from one body of land to another. Why? It's vastness does not offer a sense of immediate crossing as perhaps a monument or a pronounced border crossing would. Because the body of water stretches for some miles across the bridge, distinctiveness is less apparent, as one fluidly travels across.

Large bodies of water does not offer a sense of place, it is the objects that we bring to the water (boats) that makes the fluid and constantly changing, stable. There is no sense of particularity in large body of water, in something that is constantly moving, rising, falling, moving in, moving out. As humans, we seek for objects, things of geometry that allows to make quick distinction, quick mental notes, of forms. We seek for that which is stable that may indicate position of self as well as position of the world around. Water does not offer this. But however, it does remind us of the things that is stable, perhaps amongst the things which is not. Bringing Clarity.

Figure out what place and space is?

There is the Political maps which define unnatural means of defining place and than there is the natural, the water currents, wind circulation, land mass, ... maps which may define a more natural means of defining place.

By extruding what exist as unnatural, the design may erect that which is invisible and render it visible, so what is defined as political territories is defined within the extrusion of land mass and architectural intervention. This will offer what is typically absurd (as a line drawn in the waters, defining territory) to be revealed as such territories within the landscape rather than just within signs and hand drawn maps.