22.8.05

Constanee 'Coke' Johnson

Constanee started out with some very promising diagrams representing her intent. Very clearly stated they were immediately attractive, and had great potential. Later, these "ideas" remained undeveloped,, their spatial qualities left mostly unexamined, and not quite developed to the expected level of detail. It may perhaps be due to a lack of conviction on Constanee's part more than anything else. The idea of clustering spaces and making them interlock with each other would have worked well for a scheme of this scale. For Constanee this was not yet accepted as part of the her later schematic.

Had the project had been simply a set of fingers or pods, cloaked in a soft exterior, a transparent skin, this would have been quite acceptable and adequate, even interesting. Constanee had not had the time perhaps to see the details. her work remains a diagram, albeit a very strong one. She needs time to look into the scale of her building, and move into making this a spatial experience, and not something that necessarily makes any conceptual impact alone. The execution of a simple concept should be more important that to merely justify it, or provide rationale.

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