Fig. 26 , 27 (top left and right) Model Perspectives; Constructed of Machine Cut Perforated Steel Fig. 28, 29, 30, 31 ( Middle) 1 - Exterior walkway (top left) 2 - Punched hole (top right) 3 - Auditorium (bottom left) 4 - Review with City Image as a Backdrop (bottom right) Fig. 32 (far left) Shop Drawing of Rotating Steel Model Stand
The One-Two Punch is a simple yet
relationships are crucial for their own
effective strategy for defeating the degree
vitality. This is particularly true for
zero. The combination of the inward
community colleges whose status is
city and the ecstatic building produce a
becoming ever more important yet whose
dynamic interface through which the
presence has always been overshadowed
punctual exchange between being in the
by Universities.
city beyond the building and being in the city within the building can play out. The
The One-Two Punch is a response to
resulting building has a strong formal
Sloterdijk’s provocation ( p. 5) between
language that is derivative of and in
the ecstatic and the enstatic. It is the
service to an even stronger social agenda.
internal that allows for an ecstatic building and it is the external that allows
Architecture needs holes and volumes
for the inward city. Capturing each of
that exceed the limits of the interior in
these through architecture embodies the
order to produce meaningful spatial
mission of the community college as a
relationships with its surroundings.
vital institution embedded in the life of
For an institution, such meaningful
the city. 19