Solid Waste Management Facility
Concept Questions
Prepared for the presentation to the Public Works Department of the Conceptual Design
The following are concept questions that guide our investigation:
The goal is to change ideas about waste.
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How is one engaged by the facility?
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On how many levels can one experience the facility?
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How do we recognize and heighten the sense of a place?
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How do we respond to the juxtaposition of the built and the natural?
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How can we unify internal and external aspects of the site.
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Does the facility transform ones thinking?
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How does the facility challenge preconceived ideas?
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Does the facility offer clarity?
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Does the facility make obvious its purpose (reveal) and at the same time obscure (conceal) by its layered meaning?
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Does the facility enhance the process of revealing, changing, transforming?
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Does the facility set a standard for the future?
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Will the facility be a place that one would want to return to?
