Work has grinded to a halt as everyone prepares for school, many of us have gone traveling.  Our group had one more meeting in the time between this post and last.  I regrettably was not able to make it.  A slight problem arose when a team member added another without consulting the group.  So as a very large team at eleven, we are an even larger team at twelve.  Even with this expansion to our already bloated roster, we have been unable to decide on much or even get much done. We have managed to accomplish a few tasks that were set, mainly the site.

What has been accomplished is the selection of the majority of the site.  We chose a very large site, the water front, and plan to use this size to our advantage.  It will enable us to create a whole new circulation and program for the city.  A few other sites have been suggested throughout the city as possible outlier building sites, smaller extension of our main site.  The waterfront is the best possible opportunity to change how people think of this city.  From the very beginning our team has wanted to take what is already in Detroit and “make it work”.  By choosing the waterfront it may be possible to explore one of those early goals, the auto industry.

The picture at the top of the post may be confusing to many, it was part of a conversation I was having with a few other team members.  The conversation centered around “Green Architecture”, as of this moment the group believes green architecture to be plopping giant turbines in Detroit.  I still hold to the position that while that may be green, that is not architecture.  Like many other conversations this eventually came to nothing, I’m starting to worry about what this group is going to create.