"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

ISO 12006 with an amusement park

I’ve been requested to share some graphics on my approach for trying to explain ISO 12006 without getting into specific classification systems (Uniclass, Uniformat, Masterformat and all that jazz). I found that the amusement park analogy kind of works: the complex is the park, the entity is Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, the space is her chamber and so on.

I understand it might not be the same without me talking about them, but that goes for pretty much all my lessons. Click to enlarge.

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The Answer’s in Your Model (and yet, it might be wrong)

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The End of Oak Street

By the life of me, I don’t understand how’s possible that this movie was ever cleared for production. The concept is simple, and shamefully Stephen King-esque: a portion of a small suburban town gets teleported into a not particularly well-defined “age of dinosaurs,” and the

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Susanna Clarke’s The Ladies of Grace Adieau

I had forgotten how much I was bored by Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, but I trust I’ll like other stuff by the same author and, before tackling Piranesi, I decided to finally approach this one. Not remembering these are spin-off stories from Jonathan

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