Thoughts_Miller's Comments

Grid Strategy

• Consider truck loading/unloading in planning driveway
• Consider a utilitarian approach to human circulation versus an anthropocentric approach
• Consider the proportions of the spaces (golden rectangle) in relation to Carrie Furnace buildings
  
• Replicating the ruggedness of the skyline could be kitsch
• Consider the partnership between exhibition and architecture
• Explore potential to redefine museum space through program
• Beware of devaluing the original by copying
• Think in terms of scale
• Respect the furnaces-supporting role of museum
• Metonymic v. Literal

Landscape Strategy

• Modest
• Metonymic interpretation (Gehry) v. authenticity (Serra)
• Re-consider the apparent chaos of the Sanborn maps and recreate that through a rational process
• "Cornucopia" over-simplifies the expression of the past--reduced
• Consider expression or interpretation more thoroughly than just the roof line or shape of plan
• Consider the experience of the user
• raw confrontation
• keeping real chaos
• beware of over-interpretation/abstraction
• Consider the users reaction to the weight and span of steel--confrontation
• Deflection (?)
  
• Beware of corporatization (safe and nice buildings)
• Design parking in relation to the museum
• Design program in relation to museum form--maintain shape and energy
• Consider how the industrial process can influence your design
• Allow for users to interpret space