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While the initial understanding of a "Phantom-Like Mass" may lead to "Skeletal Formation I find it a major leap that the "WHO" is not part of this initial phase. The Who is or will be of that place, and will be just as rooted as any stationary condition. Shouldn't buildings respond to conditions of site in a broader context, one to include to accumulated social and cultural history of the who? The answer likely lies in the definition of the Who. The Who embodies a larger community, respectfully not a single person. While I may not be sure the boundaries of this community, one can speculate that there is a geographical or social border isolating groups from this slippery fish of a site analysis...

While a responsible design process may respect an environmental condition, is it not a highly destructive endeavor in conception (making stuff)? Spaces are for people and things not environment. Yet a building is created and will be destroyed. Humanity Continues as Spaces do. Humans Die much the way that a space will instantly- there is a single moment when one is alive and then not.... it is a flash.

The Moment a building begins is another flash.

“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.” -Louis Kahn

it shall return to the measurable dust from whence it came.