I don’t understand your first paragraph. It’s packed like a bouillon cube. My head exploded. So I’m not really going to be able to give you a good reply.

To set the record straight, my post was an observation of my experience to this specific building, which includes my relationship to the neighborhood, and it’s needs over a period of 18 years.

Here is where I am going – my own bouillon cube – , thinking about my time at Berkeley getting my M.Arch, I think it’s easier to talk about “architecture” than a building, in the same way it is easier for some to talk about “people” than a person.

So I’ve decided to speak to my own experiences when talking about a building and let theory catch up and shape-shift to fit that experience.

OTOH You do not include your thoughts on this building and so don’t expose yourself. You take a purely theoretical stance and from a safe distance school Mssrs. Terry Glenn, Juan Luis and myself.

If you want to talk with us, join us.

Best,
-Metrozoe

Do tell, if the facade was a perfect mirror, would you find that contextually responsive?

Now I remind myself all those US movies in which bad guys are escaping evacuation stairs on the outside of the building :]

In Poland, for example, the number of staircases depends on the area of a floor and is connected with the lenght of a escape route.