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Re: NIST WTC Collapse Report
2005.06.26 15:25
Cheryl wrote:
the highrise color code you propose is worthy of someone's editorial cartoon, and this idea could be expanded to so many other concepts. imagine instead of labeling schools "exemplary" or just "acceptable" they would have an ever changing color code to show the neighborhood how well their administrations succeeded in teaching to the test and thereby keeping real estate values high or making them dip. could apply to architectural schools, too. the more screamers you produce, the higher your color code value.
Steve replies:
Let's just say that the editorial cartoon has already been drawn.
The more I think about the idea, the more it actually makes sense. The real estate speculation is not going to stop, but it should be discernable if it is a danger.
I have a 3D computer model of Center City Philadelphia, and it might be interesting to color code the "buildings" in the model as to degrees of danger (using new NIST standards). Display of such a model for Philadelphia and for other cities may at least be another way to "alert" the public.
Just maybe symbolism in contemporary architecture is not so much dead as much as knowing what to symbolize needs resuscitation.
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