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2012

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Maggie Meets Gloria, Christian Hollendonner, Julia Libby, Sarah Volkman, Lexie Whipple, Gary Graham, Arnold Robinson Jan 2012

Maggie Meets Gloria, Christian Hollendonner, Julia Libby, Sarah Volkman, Lexie Whipple, Gary Graham, Arnold Robinson

Architecture and Urban Design

Two overlapping vesica shapes are apparent in the building composition—one creating the building enclosure, the other forming an enclosing fence to a garden space adjacent the building. This overlapping of two vesica shapes is metaphorically representative of the metaphase of cell subdivision where two cells emerge from one. The second vesica shape begins within the heart of the building enclosure and emerges to create an enclosing wall to the first of the surrounding ‘garden’ spaces.