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LUKE ANGERS

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Idiosyncrasy DEFINITION OF IDIOSYNCRASY

Definition of Idiosyncrasy Idiosyncrasy is the expression of unexplainable, unpredictable, and unaccountable phenomena, perceived through attentiveness to the anomalies of chance. ‘...and it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that this is not just “something that happened.” This cannot be “one of those things...” This, please, cannot be that.

And for what I would like to say, I can’t.

This was not just a matter of chance.

These strange things happen all the time.’

Magnolia (1999), Paul Thomas Anderson

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Contents

Stills from preliminary stop-motion assemblage exploring the nature of Chance.

19123918 - BARC0175: Advanced Architectural Design II

Title The Idiosyncrasy of Impossibility References Magnolia (1999), by Paul Thomas Anderson and the writings of Charles Fort

Protagonists The agents of chance, from the relationships in Magnolia Key Words Chance: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Unaccountable Critical Recipient of a substantial inheritance in his youth, Charles Thinking Fort spent the rest of his life in libraries researching impossible

occurrences - impossibilities of prevailing scientific perspectives that were nonetheless well documented and attested to by multiple observers. A similar process of calling foundational assumptions about human experience and environment into question can redefine the 21st century understanding of architecture and space-making as dependent upon chance phenomena and unpredictability.

What imaginative programs would derive from a logic of the unexplained, like frogs falling from the sky?

Project To address this question, an assemblage is constructed Summary exploring the nuance and interwoven dependence of the relationships in Magnolia. Given physical form through a contraption which references the joyful complexity and disfunction of Heath Robinson’s inventions, the elements of the assemblage derive from emotions and agents of chance which generate the human connections within the film. The sequence of events is as follows: Dislocated from its appropriate outdoor context, the inverted bicycle is reduced to a complicated mechanism for seemingly inconsequential movements. A spoke in the wheel is created by the numbers 8 and 2 in sequence, which creates a cause-and-effect reaction within its interdependent elements. The chain of events is propagated by a path of dependence. Fear illuminates the surroundings, searching for comfort, causing the domestic blanket to fail in keeping the unsightly chain covered. The cycles of disfunction and regret create the isolation of the protagonists, who are met with the agents of destruction that appear to restrict the unpredictability of chance. The final relation escapes the inevitable by extending outwards from the frame’s control. This sequence of anomalous intersections cannot be explained – but it did happen.

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Idiosyncrasy ASSEMBLAGE INTRODUCTION

Idiosyncrasy IDIOSYNCRATIC EVENTS IN MAGNOLIA’S TITLE CARD

The Unexplainable Death of Sydney Barringer The tale told at a 1961 awards dinner for the American Association Of Forensic Science by Dr. Donald Harper, president of the association, began with a simple suicide attempt -The coroner ruled that the unsuccessful suicide had suddenly become a succesful homicide. To explain: The suicide was confirmed by a note, left in the breast pocket of Sydney Barringer -CAMERA catches glimpses of the note, “ I’m sorry...” “...and in this time...” “...so I will go “ “...and be with God...”

At the same time young Sydney stood on the ledge of this nine story building, an argument swelled three stories below --- and it was not uncommon for them to threaten each other with a shotgun or one of the many handguns kept in the house -And when the shotgun accidentally went off, Sydney just happend to pass -Added to this, the two tenants turned out to be: Fay and Arthur Barringer.

Sydney’s mother and Sydney’s father.

When confronted with the charge, which took some figuring out for the officers on the scene of the crime, Fay Barringer swore that she did not know that the gun was loaded.

ARTHUR BARRINGER She always threatens me with the gun, but I don’t keep it loaded -DETECTIVE -- and you didn’t load the gun?

ARTHUR BARRINGER Why would I load the gun?

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A young boy who lived in the building, sometimes a vistor and friend to Sydney Barringer said that he had seen, six days prior the loading of the shotgun --

Green, Berry, and Hill - Hung in Greenberry Hill, London

It seems that the arguing and the fighting and all of the violence was far too much for Sydney Barringer and knowing his mother and father’s tendency to fight, he decided to do something -Her accidental shotgun blast hits Sydney in the stomach as he passes the arguing sixth floor window -He is killed instantly but continues to fall -- only to find, three stories below -- a safety net installed three days prior for a set of window washers that would have broken his fall and saved his life if not for the hole in his stomach.

So Fay Barringer was charged with the murder of her son and Sydney Barringer noted as an accomplice in his own death... ...and it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that this is not just “Something That Happened.” This cannot be “One of those things...” This, please, cannot be that.

And for what I would like to say, I can’t.

This Was Not Just A Matter Of Chance.

Ohhhh. These strange things happen all the time.

In the New York Herald, November 26, year 1911, there is an account of the hanging of three men -...they died for the murder of Sir Edmund William Godfrey --- Husband, Father, Pharmacist and all around gentle-man resident of -Greenberry Hill, London. Population as listed.

He was murdered by three vagrants whose motive was simple robbery. They were identified as: ...Joseph Green..... ...Stanley Berry.... ...and Nigel Hill...

Green, Berry and Hill. ...And I Would Like To Think This Was Only A Matter Of Chance.

Anderson, P. T. (n.d.). Magnolia - shooting draft, by Paul Thomas Anderson. Retrieved October 8, 2021, from https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/magnolia.html.

Idiosyncrasy THE PRECISION OF CHANCE

An Impossible Sequence of Events Leading to Sydney Barringer’s Homicide

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1 The City of Los Angeles, March 23rd, 1958...

2 Sydney Barringer jumps from the ninth-floor rooftop...

3 In Sydney’s right hip pocket is a suicide note to his parents...

4 His mother is in a shouting match with his father three floors below...

5 Her accidental shotgun blast hits Sydney in the stomach...

6 As he passes the arguing sixth floor window he is killed instantly...

7 But continues to fall, only to find, five stories below...

8 A safety net installed three days prior for window washers which...

9 Would’ve broken his fall and saved him, if not for the hole in his stomach

Idiosyncrasy MAGNOLIA: ANALYSIS OF ENCOUNTERS AND EMOTIONS

Magnolia and Exodus 8:2 Exodus 8:2, King James Bible: And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: Paul Thomas Anderson claims he had know prior knowledge of the Bible verse when writing the rain of frogs into Magnolia’s script. In spite of this, numerous Easter eggs are hidden within the film as a series of 8s and 2s, going as far as to have “Exodus 8:2” displayed on a billboard during the rain itself. His insistence on ignorance in spite of these hidden messages points to the idiosyncratic character and humour of the director himself. The images below only depict a fraction of the numbers that can be found.

From the Reddit thread ‘References to Exodus 8:2 in Magnolia (2000) “The book says we may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us”’

Magnolia (1998), Paul Thomas Anderson 5

Unexplainable Intersections and Chance Encounters

Emotional Aspects of Magnolia’s Characters

Donnie’s Broken Key

Jim - LOVE

In a desperate last attempt to fund his orthodontia dreams, Donnie breaks in to his former employers back to steal from the safe. Whilst leaving the premises he unwitting leaves his key in the lock, which is promptly snapped by his key-string. Driving away from the crime scene, his conscious interferes and he returns, only to be pelted by frogs, rescued by Jim, and eventually confess and return the money. He is forgiven by Jim and is not arrested.

“Whatever you wanna tell me, whatever you think might scare me, won’t... and I will listen...

I will be a good listener to you if that’s what you want... I won’t judge you.”

Jim’s Radio Going Off

Phil - CARE

After responding to a call at Claudia’s apartment for a noise complaint Jim is on his way to leave, presumably never to see her again. Halfway down the first flight of stairs something causes him to pause. Claudia’s door is still well within earshot. As he waits, his radio suddenly goes off, revealing his location and he is forced to turn back in explanation. This leads to him asking Claudia for a date, an action he initially was not planning on taking.

“I know this sounds silly, and I know that I might sound ridiculous... like this is the scene of the movie... where the guy is trying to get ahold of the long-lost son... but this is that scene.”

Phil’s Telephone Speech

Earl - REGRET

After hearing Earl’s deathbed regrets and wishes, Phil takes it upon himself to attempt the impossible task of reuniting him with his long lost son, Frank. After numerous attempts, failure, and dead ends, Phil is finally able to reach through the mess of Franks dial-up pickup business, truly reaching the stranger on the other end of the line at an emotional level.

Because of this, he is given access to Frank’s personal number.

“The goddamn regret. Oh, and I’ll die. Now I’ll die, and I’ll tell you what... the biggest regret of my life... the greatest regret of my life: I let my love go.”

Frank - AGGRESSION “And Phil... I will drop-kick the fucking dogs if they come near me.” - “Language. The magical key to unlocking the female analytical mindset.”

Claudia - FORGIVENESS “What can you forgive someone... That’s the tough part. What can we forgive? Tough part of the job... Tough part of walking down the street.”

Donnie - FEAR “Getting braces. I thought... I thought he would love me. Getting... braces! And for what? For something I don’t even... I don’t know where to put things, you know?”

Idiosyncrasy MAGNOLIA: CHARACTER CATALOGUE AND RELATIONSHIP MAP

Map of Intersecting Relationships and the Elements which Connect Them ‘The film’s structure might reflect the flower’s shape: Both are built around opposed pairs, of characters and petals, respectively.’

Magnolia’s Characters

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Frank

Phil

Stanley Spector A child genius, and star of the television program “What Do Kids Know?” hosted by...

Jimmy Gator A lovable personality who has worked on the show’s network for decades. The network is run by...

‘Big Earl’ Partridge A wealthy man on his deathbed, regretting his life choices and estrangement from his son...

Frank Mackie A pickup scam artist and motivational speaker who is convinced to meet with his father by...

Phil Parma Earl’s personal end of life carer, hired and excessively debriefed by Earl’s trophy wife...

Linda Partridge An emotionally torn gold-digger-turned lover who overdoses on prescriptions and is discovered by...

Dixon Another child living in a housing complex where he witnesses a nearby homicide investigated by..

Officer Jim Kurring A naive police officer looking for love, During an anomalous rain of frogs he rescues...

Donnie Smith The former ‘Quiz Kid’ champion who was extorted by his parents, much like Stanley’s father...

Rick Spector An overbearing man obsessed with success and status. His neglect is reminiscent of...

Rose Gator Wife of Jimmy, whose struggle to manage the horrors of family life isolates her from...

Claudia Wilson Her daughter who has resorted to substance abuse to manage traumatic past memories...

Stanley

Caro, M. (2018, August 28). from https://www. chicagotribune.com/news/

Security

Linda

Father’s Greed

Cancer

Pills

Earl Past Dixon

Donnie

Finances The Show

Pistol

Broken Key Jim Legacy Coffee

Disappointment Claudia

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Jimmy

Idiosyncrasy INSPIRATION FROM THE STUDY OF ANOMALOUS EVENTS

Charles H. Fort

Idiosyncrasy and Impossibility: The Fortean Times

The Impossibility and Chance of Idiosyncrasy

Part of the film Magnolia is focused on the experience of a child ‘genius’ whose father is obsessed with his success on a television quiz show. Throughout his numerous and wide ranging studies, the child becomes immersed in the work of Charles Fort and his newspaper, The Fortean Times, which runs to this day.

Charles Fort’s first book, The Book of the Damned (1919)

The Rain of Frogs The film culminates with an anomalous weather event where frogs fall from the sky. It turns out there are, in fact, rains of frogs from time to time.

Sometimes they are frozen. There are also sometimes rains of fish, and

Fort was born in Albany, upstate New York, in 1874. Rebelling against his domineering businessman father, the young Charles became a writer, starting out as a reporter on the Albany Argus and the Brooklyn World.

Having married and moved to New York City, he tried his hand at novels and short stories, holding down jobs as a joke writer or a dish washer to pay the rent. Many of the results are lost to history – burned manuscripts, abandoned novels – but, in the end, he found his own unique voice in four books, published between 1919 and his death in 1932, that pretty much set the template for the study of ‘strange phenomena’. The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo! and Wild Talents were dense, difficult and funny by turns, full of bizarre facts, mind-blowing philosophical speculations and humorous assaults on stuffy scientific orthodoxy. They were like nothing before or since, although every subsequent work on the paranormal owes a huge debt to Fort’s pioneering efforts.

Sutton, D. (2018, July 2). Charles Fort. Journal. Retrieved October 8, 2021, from http:// journal.london/2018/03/29/charles-fort/.

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sometimes these are frozen too. Despite the fact that weather agencies do not include chances for rains of frogs and fish in their forecasts, it turns out that such miraculous events occur with some frequency.

Idiosyncrasy THE IDIOSYNCRATIC LIFE OF CHARLES FORT

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A Life of Idiosyncrasy

Distrust of Authority, Legacy, and Death

Real Contributions to the Scientific Canon

For more than 30 years, Charles Fort visited the New York City Public Library assiduously reading scientific journals, newspapers, and magazines, collecting notes (60,000 of which were donated to the library upon his death).

The New York Public Library

The Fortean Society was initiated by Fort’s acquaintances in the spirit of good humour and preservation of Fort’s ideas. He famously disavowed it and refused the presidency, though it runs a newspaper to this day.

The Fortean Society, established in his honour and for which he refused the presidency

Fort is recognized as the discoverer of some genuinely new phenomena within the mainstream academic community, like his description of Ball Lightning, thought to be a fisherman’s tale but now understood to exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

Fort and his wife Anna purportedly lived in London from 1924 to 1926, having relocated there so Fort could peruse the files of the British Museum and British Library to assist with forthcoming books.

The British Library

A discerning skeptic and non-authoritarian, Fort consistently questioned the status quo. Similar to the aged men in Magnolia, he died of leukemia in 1932 after refusing help from doctors in order to complete his book Wild Talents.

Fort and his wife Anna, who claimed to be visited by his ghost after his death

Similarly, the rare meteorological events wherein flightless animals fall from the sky were first recorded by Fort. These events have been recorded consistently throughout history but the mechanism is yet to be explained.

Records of frog rain dated 1355, Smithsonian Magazine

Idiosyncrasy A CATALOGUE OF CHARLES FORT’S UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA

Meteorological Phenomena

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Anomalous Objects

Fortean Events

Rains of Frogs, Meat, and Blood

Fairy Crosses

Crop Circles

“Upon March 3, 1876, at Olympian Springs, Bath County, Kentucky, flakes of a substance that looked like beef fell “from a clear sky.” We’d like to emphasize that it was said that nothing but this falling substance was visible in the sky. It fell in flakes of various sizes, 1 to 4 inches square.”

“They crucified cockroaches.

Exquisite beings, but the cruelty of the exquisite. ‘Fairy crosses,’ we are told in Harper’s Weekly, range in weight from one−quarter of an ounce to an ounce: but it is said, in the Scientific American, that some of them are no larger than the head of a pin.”

Are flattened patterns found in crop fields, coined in the 80s. Advocates of non-human causes discount on-site evidence of human involvement as attempts to discredit the phenomena.

(Pictured is a sketch of a “spaceship” creating crop circles, sent to UK Ministry of Defence circa 1998).

“Flesh descending in a shower.” New York Times, March 10, 1876, p. 1 c. 6. “The sky was perfectly clear at the time....”

G.O. Stovall. “The fairy stones of Virginia.”

Harper’s Weekly, 50 (May 19, 1906): 715.

Colin Andrews, Pat Delgado Circular Evidence: A Detailed Investigation of the Flattened Swirled Crops. Phanes Press, 1991.

Oversized Snowflakes

Balls of Light + Fire

Spontaneous Combustion

“In the winter of 1887 very large snowflakes were reported as having fallen on January 28, near Matt.

Coleman’s ranch at Fort Keogh, Mont.

In this case, the great flakes were described as being `larger than milk pans’ and measuring 38 centimeters across by 20 centimeters thick.”

“In Nature, 37−187, and L’Astronomie, 1887−76, we are told that an object, described as “a large ball of fire,” was seen to rise from the sea, near Cape Race. We are told that it rose to a height of fifty feet, and then advanced close to the ship, then moving away, remaining visible about five minutes.”

Mary Reeser’s remains, largely ashes, were found in the remains of a chair in which she had been sitting. Only part of her left foot and her backbone remained, along with her skull. Plastic household objects at a distance from the seat of the fire were softened and had lost their shapes.

14. C.A. Jr. “Gigantic snowflakes.” Monthly Weather Review, 43 (February 1915): 73.

6. “Notes.” Nature, 37 (December 22, 1887): 185−7, at 187. Nature identifies it as “globular lightning.” “Lafoudre globulaire.” Astronomie,

Jerry Blizin “No New Clues In Reeser Death; Debris Sent To Lab”, St. Petersburg Times, July 5, 1951, p14

Horses, Turtles + Barns in Magonia

Out-of-Place Artifacts (OOPArts)

UFOs and USOs

“A barn and horse were carried completely away, and neither horse nor barn, nor any portion of either have since been found.”

“There is little of the bizarre or the unassimilable, in the turtle that hovered six months or so over a small town in Mississippi.”

“Many years ago, a strange stone resembling a meteorite, fell into the valley of the Yaqui, Mexico, and the sensational story went from one end to the other of the country that a stone bearing human inscriptions had descended to the earth... Mr. Holder’s assertion that this stone did fall.”

In May, 1880, on a dark night, there suddenly appeared on each side of the ship an enormous luminous wheel whirling round, the spokes of which seemed to brush the ship along. The spokes would be 200 or 300 yards long, and resembled the birch rods of the dames’ schools.

Fort, Charles. The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2008.

1. Charles Frederick Holder. “The Esperanza stone.” Scientific American, n.s., 103 (September 10, 1910):

1. J.W. Robertson. “Strange phenomenon.”

Knowledge, 4 (December 28, 1883): 396.

Idiosyncrasy ASSEMBLAGE CRITICAL THINKING

Critical Thinking Recipient of a substantial inheritance in his youth, Charles Fort spent the rest of his life in libraries researching impossible occurrences - impossibilities of prevailing scientific perspectives that were nonetheless well documented and attested to by multiple observers. A similar process of calling foundational assumptions about human experience and environment into question can redefine the 21st century understanding of architecture and space-making as dependent upon chance phenomena and unpredictability. What imaginative programs would derive from a logic of the unexplained, like frogs falling from the sky?

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Idiosyncrasy KEY WORDS DIAGRAM

IDIOSYNCRASY CAUSE (WEATHER)

EFFECT (OUTCOME)

CHANCE

PROBLEM DISFUNCTION

(RELATIONS)

REGRET

UNPREDICTABILITY

UNEXPLAINABLE HOPE

FORGIVENESS

POTENTIAL ANOMALOUS

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Idiosyncrasy ANALYSIS OF KEY WORDS FORGIVENESS

THE UNEXPLAINABILITY OF THE DIOMEDE ISLANDS

“A lot of people think this is just a job that you go to. Take a lunch hour. Job’s over. Something like that. But it’s a 24-hour deal. No two ways about it. And what most people don’t see is just how hard it is to do the right thing. People think if I make a judgment call that that’s a judgment on them, but that is not what I do. And that’s not what should be done. I have to take everything and play it as it lays.

Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail. And that is a very tricky thing on my part, making that call. I mean, the law is the law and heck if I’m gonna break it. You can forgive someone. Well, that’s the tough part. What can we forgive? Tough part of the job. Tough part of walking down the street.”

The Diomede Islands are places of both unpredictability and unexplainable logic. They are inextricably linked and reliant upon one another but exist in a state of temporal and physical loneliness despite their proximity. Within this tiny geographic anomaly exists and near-perfect microcosm of the relationship between the different countries to which they belong, dependent on each other yet hostile, at some times fearful, and always deeply curious and observant of one another. If the mysterious City of Kitezh were to reappear on the date line and border separating the two, could it possibly act as the interlocutor of a new relationship. What imaginative programs and functions could mediate the current disfunction, and perhaps through unforseen means, create a means of trust and forgiveness.

Magnolia (1999), Paul Thomas Anderson

IDIOSYNCRASY

CHANCE

Agents of Destruction The Shotgun

Jim’s Radio

Weather Events

AGGRESSI ON

FEAR

T RU T H

DESPERAT I ON

LOV E

T EM PERAN CE

Fear of Life

UNEXPLAINED

Agents of Unpredictability

Agents of Providence

Key to the Store

Cancer

SADN ESS

FORGI V EN ESS

CARE

FEAR

T EM PERAN CE

SADN ESS

Frank’s Advertisement

SYNCHRONICITY

ANTICIPATION

UNPREDICTABLE

SERENDIPITY

BELIEF

IMPOSSIBLE

CONTRADICTORY

COINCIDENCE

UNPROVEN

ANOMALY

NUANCE

UNACCOUNTABLE

Nuance and Attentiveness to Idiosyncrasy

Accounting for Everything vs. Leaving Things Unexplained

Idiosyncrasy is always present within the human experience, if enough attention is payed to the details and nuances. Much of modern culture attempts to eliminate or remove these idiosyncrasies, seeking to simplify, streamline, and refine processes into a homogeneous totality.

The unexplained is inherently contradictory. As such, it becomes a category to be scorned and ignored from the perspective of mainstream intellectual culture and the rational scientific establishment.

Against this totalizing system and impulse to account for all aspects of a whole, idiosyncrasy provides an opportunity for diversion and iconoclasm. At any scale or frame of reference, from detail, ornament, program, function, and planning, idiosyncrasy can appear through the smallest gestures.

The only requirement for capitalizing on this promise is simply allowing this attentiveness and nuance to reconnect with the built environment. Humanity has an inherent desire and need for such elements, and by focusing efforts on the definition of flexible infrastructures rather than perfectly controlled monopolies of spaces and cities.

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Dependence

DESPERAT I ON

GREED

DI SGU ST

REGRET

DI SGU ST

T RU T H

Magnolia: The Agents of Chance Choreographed in the Built Environment

Similarly, the unexplained contradicts everything seen as foundational to the practice of architecture and management of cities. The goal of these industries to explain and account for everything, always striving for efficiency and perfection.

In opposition to this, the unexplained allows us to consider chance within the process of architecture itself. It raises interesting possibilities for building chance into projects themselves, allowing boundaries past which the unaccountable elements of the wider environment are able to operate and thrive. The unexplainable could, by such a process, become an accepted element in the practices of space-making, helping to create an architecture that does not erase chance happenings and the value of anomaly.

Initial Storyboard Sequence

The Romanticism of Chance

Not Confusing Sickness and Love

The stop motion assemblage can be read as a narrative arc both forwards and backwards in time. In the sequence it was shot, the film can be read as a story of chance interactions eventually leading down a path of despondency, illness, and regret. The emotions of fear and disgust are fought against but ultimately escape into the wider environment, and the stage is left as a semblance of it’s former self. Wracked by the tumult of the spontaneous interactions occurring on it’s surface, it cannot be fully recovered.

The romantic sensibility of humanity is incredibly sensitive to the unexplained, and to chance events or intersections which seem to convey meaning. By accepting and embracing the opportunities of chance the highly controlled nature of modern environments can be undermined.

“You seem the sort of person who confuses the two.”

However, much like Donnie Smith in Magnolia, the assemblage can be seen as confusing sickness with love, depending on the direction in which it is read.

Chance can be used as a tool to celebrate the nuance of life. Allowing for the unexplainable and the impossible enriches human life and brings meaning and interest into everyday experiences. By attempting to eliminate opportunities for chance occurrences, modern culture loses something essential to the appreciation of the idiosyncratic nature of life.

“That’s right. That’s the first time you’ve been right. I confuse the two and I don’t care.”

As a means of confusing the narrative of chance, the assemblage is read in the opposite direction. From this perspective, it is a story of redemption, forgiveness, and love. The initially destructive and unpredictable event of the shotgun blast opens the stage to the Agents. This time, their series of interactions are an attempt to contain and diminish the emotions caused by sickness. The sequence ends with the chance of love created by Jim’s radio.

Idiosyncrasy BROADER REFERENCES

Project’s Definition of Idiosyncrasy

Magonia: Lost Above the Firmament

Idiosyncrasy is attentiveness to the unexplained, the unaccountable, and the impossible.

“The Magonia is a mythical place above the firmament where stuff goes and hangs out, so a ship is lost at sea and then an anchor falls on some farmers barn in Iowa, and they’ll say, `Well, it came from that ship in the Magonia.’”

Paul Thomas Anderson on Charlie Rose (2000)

There are stories of coincidence and chance and intersections and strange things told and which is which and who only knows... and we generally say, “Well if that was in movie I wouldn’t believe it.”

Someone’s so and so meet someone else’s so and so and so on -- And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that these strange things happen all the time... and so it goes and so it goes and the book says, “We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.”

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Passport to Magonia (1965), Jaques Vallee

Synchronicity, or, Temporally Coincident Occurrences of Acausal Events Through his work with Wolfgang Pauli, Jung developed a theory to disrupt and complement the classical view of causality within the field of physics.

Synchonicity is defined as a meaningful coincidence in time.

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1952), Carl Jung

Idiosyncrasy CHOREOGRAPHING ELEMENTS OF CHANCE IN THE ASSEMBLAGE

The Narrative of Chance and its Agents

Storyboard Sequence of the Chance Bicycle Contraption Inspired by the mechanical complexity, turning wheels, and chance intersections of the inventions of Heath Robinson, the assemblage relates a narrative of unpredictable events, their causes, and effects. Like the spinning wheels of chance in game shows and casinos, the wheel of a bicycle is co opted to serve as a mechanism of chance which drives an unexplainable series of events.

Testing Golf Drivers, from the book: William Heath Robinson Inventions

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Idiosyncrasy METAPHORS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ASSEMBLAGE

The Metaphor of the Inverted Bicycle: Unusual Circumstances

INVERSION: Creating dislocation and disfunction, separate from the natural context.

Metaphors within the Bicycle’s Elements

WHEEL: Repeating cycles, both positive and negative.

To put a spoke in someone’s wheel mainly BRITISH If you put a spoke in someone’s wheel, you deliberately do something which spoils their plans. She was just jealous of your relationship with Pippa and couldn’t resist putting a spoke in your wheel. Note: Cartwheels used to be made of solid wood, with holes in them through which a wooden bar or `spoke’ could be pushed in order to make the cart slow down or stop.

Put a spoke in (one’s) wheel. The Free Dictionary. Retrieved October 25, 2021, from https:// idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+a+spoke+in+our+wheels.

CAUSE (YESTERDAY)

EFFECT (TOMORROW)

CHAIN: The intersection which connects disparate elements.

Ticker tape parade for presidential candidate Richard Nixon in New York in 1960 FRAME: The totalizing system, society.

The bicycle assemblage leaves behind traces of oil and grease, creating a visual record of the random movements of chance events.

Assemblage Explanation SEAT: Grounding element stabilizing the frame.

HANDLES: The instrument of control.

T The bicycle is inverted and dislocated from its primary context and function of transportation on roadways.

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Dislocated from the precarious speed of the road, the inverted bicycle is reduced to a pointlessly complicated mechanism for inconsequential movements. A spoke in the wheel is created by the numbers 8 and 2 in sequence, which activates the interdependent elements of the system.

The chain of events is traced by a path of dependence. Fear illuminates the surroundings, searching for comfort, while the domestic blanket fails to keep the unsightly chain covered. The cycles of disfunction and regret separate the lonesome protagonists, who are met with the agents of cruelty that appear restrict the unpredictability of chance. The final protagonist escapes the inactivity by extending outwards from the existing frame. Looking back, the sequence cannot be explained – but it did happen.

Idiosyncrasy THE AGENTS OF CHANCE: MAGNOLIA COUNTERPARTS

Agents of Disfunction PRESCRIPTIONS

Agents of Regret

BLACK JACK

PERSONA

LOVE

ORAL SURGERY

Agents of Unpredictability

BODILY PROCESS

MANIPULATION

DECEIT

AUTHORITY

TELEVISION

ADDICTION

CONTROL

ROUTINE

DISHONESTY

INATTENTION

LONELINESS

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REJECTION

SHOTGUN

NETTING

LEGACY

BARROOM

FOREST FIRE

PRESSURE

TRUTH

RADIO CALL

STREET NAME

PHONE CALL

BROKEN KEY

CONNECTION

CYCLES

ABANDONMENT

WEATHER

CHANCE

FEAR

DEPENDENCE

EXTORTION

LOST RIFLE

MONEY

CRUELTY

ABUSE

CANDLE

DOGS

BOOKS

DOMESTICITY

BED

Idiosyncrasy THE AGENTS OF CHANCE: ASSEMBLAGE STILLS

Agents of Disfunction

Agents of Regret

Events are connected by a path of dependence.

Fear illuminates the surroundings, searching for comfort.

FEAR

DEPENDENCE

Control is exerted by elements of the bike frame itself which manipulate the chain of events.

MANIPULATION

CYCLES

The group of characters separated by the wheel embody different elements of loneliness.

DISHONESTY

INNATENTION

LONELINESS

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The spinning wheel represents repeating cycles, both positive and negative.

Chance occurrences are caused by the numbers 8 and 2 in sequence.

CHANCE

Connection is created by reuniting agents of loneliness.

AUTHORITY

CONTROL

ROUTINE

Agents of Unpredictability

Agents of cruelty restrict the motion of chance.

CONNECTION

Domesticity attempts to cover the unsightly chain beneath but fails.

ABANDONMENT

CRUELTY

DOMESTICITY

Idiosyncrasy THE AGENTS OF CHANCE: EXPLANATION

Agents of Disfunction

Agents of Regret

Dependence takes the form of a trail that intersects various elements within the narrative.

It is initiated by the first element of chance and continues extending it’s web throughout the passage of time, turning on fear (lights) and starting the motion which destroys domesticity.

Fear takes the form of bicycle lights, which are enabled by the path of dependence. Like the props which cause fear in Magnolia, the lights are representative of the rider’s fear of the external environment and the unpredictability of road conditions, traffic events, and fellow humans.

Chance is represented through one of the hidden elements in Magnolia itself. Throughout the film, the numbers 8 and 2 are placed in countless shots, referencing the verse of Exodus which foretells a rain of frogs. In the assemblage, 8 and 2 appear as signals of a chance event.

DEPENDENCE

FEAR

CHANCE

Just as characters, especially the younger ones, are controlled and manipulated in Magnolia, elements of authority and manipulation interfere with the events of the assemblage. The loneliness of routine wreaks havoc with the camera, while handlebars are representative of general control.

Many cycles occur continuously throughout the narrative of a single day in Magnolia. Abstracted to a representation of the day itself, the assemblage imagines the meta-cycle of these repeating events occurring on the time scale of a human life.

Like the random elements of chance which connect characters in the film, the initially separated clothespins are coincidentally reunited by in the culminating chance event of the assemblage. This moment of connection allows them to spell out their secret messages.

CONTROL

CYCLES

CONNECTION

Loneliness is represented by an assortment of clothespin agents each referencing an element of Magnolia which contributes to a characters loneliness. The centripetal force of the spinning wheel separates them before they are reunited in spelling out the final message of the assemblage.

Cruelty is implied below the surface of many events in Magnolia. In the assemblage, the cruel elements mimic the behaviors of characters in the film by holding back natural processes and preventing productive elements of chaos from occurring in the series of chance events.

To represent the feeling of domesticity at the bedside and tabletop stages in Magnolia, a gingham dishcloth is deployed to conceal the unsightly elements of the bicycle’s drive-train.

As the series of chance events are initiated, the gingham is tainted and eventually crumbles.

LONELINESS

CRUELTY

DOMESTICITY

MANIPULATION

ROUTINE

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Agents of Unpredictability

AUTHORITY

DISHONESTY

INATTENTION

ABANDONMENT

Idiosyncrasy ASSEMBLAGE STORYBOARD

The Idiosyncrasy of Impossibility NOTE

These images are stills. The animated version can be viewed in the in the narrated .mp4 file (BARC0175_22_AngersLuke_PG10_Narrated02.mp4 at 1:45) submitted along with this portfolio.

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1 The inverted bicycle’s wheels spin without rhyme or reason...

2 A spoke in the wheel is created when 8 and 2 join in sequence...

3 The reaction follows along a path of dependence, splattering oil...

4 Fear illuminates the surroundings causing the domestic blanket to fall...

5 While a second chance anomaly begins the cycle of disfunction...

6 Separating the lonesome protagonists from one another...

7 The agent of cruelty restricts movement, along with the final character...

8 While the agent of regret stops the spinning, the final escape is made...

9 This was not just a matter of chance.

Contents

Idiosyncrasy BUILDING PROJECT INTRODUCTION

19123918 - BARC0175: Advanced Architectural Design II

Title The United Natures of Yestermorrow Location Diomede Islands, straddling the International Date Line Protagonists Delegates of the United Nations and American agents Timeline Present day – Biden Administration Critical Problem (Relations): If, as they say, “we dislike no one so Thinking much as our nearest neighbour,” reflections create anomalies.

Cause (Environment): Whose elements constantly and unpredictably change in maintaining a greater form.

Effect (Spatial Outcome): The boundary reflecting itself, now a twin, impossible phenomena in their relation. When what has come and what is to come are one, two are in-between.

Project Under the guise of protecting the environment, preventing Summary sea-level rise, and cooling the Arctic, America performs a

covert land reclamation of the ice floes in the Bering Strait.

While their Russian neighbour is not concerned with land mass, having an abundant supply to begin with, American officials have not forgotten the Cold War’s mismatched space glove fiasco. As retribution they surreptitiously use ice harvesting as a technique for growing the footprint of the American Little Diomede year-round, creating a land mass ever closer to the surface area of the Russian Big Diomede. The ‘gift’ of world diplomacy offered across the strait in the form of the UN headquarters is a similar form of trojan horse, disguising the export of American nuclear waste to the farthest corner of their territory. Using the convenience of cooler temperatures to manage the radioactive plutonium from reactors along the west coast, the new United Nations headquarters is offered as a model of sustainable environmental design to be shared by both sides, generating warmth for the delegates accommodations and speaker’s tables while preserving Arctic ‘ice’ under the cover of American workshops.

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Idiosyncrasy LAND OF YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW

The Diomede Islands - Existence on the Date Line

Global Context

Because they are separated by the International Date Line, Big Diomede is almost a day ahead of Little Diomede, but not completely; due to locally defined time zones, Big Diomede is only 21 hours ahead of Little Diomede. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomede_Islands

USA

RUSSIA Diomede Islands

https://postcourier.com.pg/islands-three-miles-apart-separated-by-21-hour-time-difference/

Sunset occurring in 2 different days of the week simultaneously.

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Big Diomede (Tomorrow Island)

Little Diomede (Yesterday Isle)

Idiosyncrasy DISFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS ALONG THE DATE LINE

The Interlocutor Between the Diomedes

NEGLECT

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SADNESS

DIOMEDE ISLANDS SITE PLAN Uelen Polar Base ANNUAL MEAN FLOW PATHS

RUSSIA International Dateline

OPPOSITE WIND DIRECTION

30m Depth Contour (Readily Frozen) Ratmanov Military Base

Tomorrow Island 29 km²

Max. Depth 50m

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USA Tin City Air Force Station

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RUSSIA International Dateline

OPPOSITE WIND DIRECTION

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Tomorrow Island 29 km²

Yesterday Isle (Town of Diomede) 7.252 km² + 21.1 km² = 28.352 km² Model Calculation in m²

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Security Council Barriers

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Idiosyncrasy EXISTING CONTENTIONS ON THE DIOMEDES

The Ministry of Yestermorrow, Chance Predictions Services Inspired by the infrastructural delusions and hubris of the nuclear era Soviet and American governments, the complex webs of dependence and chance occurrences in Magnolia, and the mechanized and disfunctional bureaucracy of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, the Ministry of Yestermorrow is a collaborative institution that will attempt to manage and redirect the existing tension between the countries on either side of Diomede Islands. In contrast to the surrounding environment, the Ministry is a complex apparatus of architectural machinery and instrumentation, intent of measuring, quantifying, and account for all possible scenarios and risks, through the belief that it can see into the future via its existence on the international dateline. With the impossible foresight of a day’s advanced knowledge, it poses itself as a new hub for predicting insurance rates, financial markets, and development prospects, issuing guarantees for the following days weather and forecasting certitude in claims about the global climate.

The Ministry is sited between the two islands, directly on the international date line.

“Chance would be is a fine thing” A play on the English saying, “Chance is a fine thing” becomes the new motto for the Ministry of Yestermorrow. Emblematic of the attitude taken towards the unknown and unexplained by both the 20th century proposals for the Diomedes and the Ministry itself, the saying is explored through a project that documents in architectural events, the consequences of chance.

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Past Functions

Current and Developing Functions Military Operations + Surveillance

Forgiveness Despite the Curtain?

Military unit 2254, border outpost “Ratmanov”, part of Russian Border Force. The Soviet Union first moved to protect national borders in the region of Chukotka and to establish sovereignty over a number of remote areas in the summer of 1924, during a rising threat of the US to annexation.

Borders were first drawn in 1867 when America bought Alaska from a cashstrapped Russia. No-one took much notice, families lived on both islands and criss-crossed back and forth until 1948 when the border was suddenly closed. The Soviet military resettled families on the Siberian mainland.

Border Outpost and Arctic Weather Station “Ratmanov Island”. (n.d.). Retrieved October 29, 2021, from http://wikimapia.org/7258991/

Hawksley, H. (2015, August 30). The ice curtain that divides us families from Russian cousins. BBC News. Retrieved October 29,

Native Alaskan Town

Shipping and Freight Route

Midnight sun for those dependent on subsistence hunting-gathering means little rest. Residents scour the island’s nooks and crannies for murre eggs.

Still others scramble up the hillside to swoop aucklets out of the sky with hand-made nets. The ultimate prize, though, is walrus.

Shipping routes through the Bering Strait are thawing. 5-years ago, just 4 ships took the Arctic route to Europe instead of the much longer one through the Panama Canal. 3-years later, 71 ships carried 1.3 million tonnes on the same route - by 2020, expected the annual cargo will be 30 million tonnes.

Herrero, JP. (2018, December 3). Climate change batters this Arctic island-can the community cope? National Geographic.

Shipping on Northern Sea Route breaks record. The Independent Barents Observer. (n.d.). Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://

Habitats in Flux

Resource Extraction

Walrus come more sporadically, the seal hunting season is shorter, and the polar bears are scarce. As a whole, the ecosystem there, and around the Arctic, seems in flux. “Communities rely culturally, nutritionally, and economically on a really robust, stable subsistence system.”

The Diomede islands lie just below the Arctic Circle, where vast quantities of natural resources are becoming accessible thanks to climate change and melting of the ice. According to geological surveys, the Arctic accounts for 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil and 30% of its natural gas.

Herrero, JP. (2018, December 3). Climate change batters this Arctic island-can the community cope? National Geographic.

EU calls for ban on Arctic oil and gas drilling.

EUobserver. Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://euobserver.com/climate/153220.

Idiosyncrasy PROJECT BREIF: BUILDING FOR CHANCE

Understanding Chance in Relationship to the Brief

Mishaps

Contemporary References to Chance and Architecture

Climate Change and Management

Unopened Tube Stations

“What is interesting, that I find is really the experiment out there and that a lot of young people are interested in. is going one step beyond the controllable machine. We work in BIM and all sorts of systems, we can make smart buildings and work right from design through to fabrication processes very quickly, but what happens when the robot itself has agency? I see some students shaking their heads, but I think that’s really in the air. That young folks are interested in the CHANCE and in things that are not entirely predetermined. Like the way materials behave, if you use a robot as a collaborator and you have a thought and in real time produce something with defects, or there’s a defect in a material you can scan the material and start to have another process, or an automated process that performs, and think critically and aesthetically on that. Is it then possible to have a new relationship with thinking machines?”

- Liz DIller’s observation on students at the Princeton School of Architecture

‘In years to come, there will be satellite equipment for controlling the weather.

The effects of air and humidity masses can be calculated more precisely from above. Sensitive sighting and analysis devices will make long-range predictions highly accurate. Control of weather is the next step.’

Hundreds of stations were once planned by the London Underground and were granted parliamentary approval. Subsequent changes of plans or funding led to these stations being canceled before they opened, and not always before any construction work was carried out.

June 22, 1958 edition of “Closer Than We Think” from the Charleston Gazette

“List of Former and Unopened London Underground Stations.”

Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Foundation, August 8, 2021.

Extreme Personal Freedom

Ghost Cities

‘Fifty years from now, cars will flit back and forth on cushions of air, the wheels retracting upon starting. They will be fueled by some exotic new compound yet to be developed; gasoline as we know it will have gone the way of the buggy whip. A radar-like device will guard against accidents.’

Enormous developments, primarily observed in China, which sit unoccupied, anticipating populations that sometimes never arrive. The phenomenon was observed and recorded as early as 2006 by writer Wade Shepard, and subsequently reported by news media over decades.

Person. (2017, November 14). Pictures of the future that never was. Popular Mechanics.

Retrieved October 17, 2021,

W Shepard, ‘Ghost Cities of China: The story of cities without people in the world’s most populated country’, Zed Books, London, 2015,

Underground Urbanism

Automated Living Environments

‘Rather than building new streets or widening existing ones-which Corbett and others on the committee found impractical-they recommended segregating and layering traffic: rail lines would run underground, vehicles at street level, and pedestrians above on elevated sidewalks.’

‘There is no practical reason why these operations and appliances cannot be controlled remotely from any room in the house. Short-wave radio may be utilized for this purpose, as well as for answering the doorbell and receiving visitors by transmitting a greeting to them and unlocking the door.’

Willis, C. (n.d.). Harvey Wiley Corbett. The Skyscraper Museum: Future City: New york modern. Retrieved October 17, 2021,

Popular Mechanics, Feb 1939, Vol. 71, No. 2 ISSN 0032-4558. https://books.google. co.uk/books/about/Popular_Mechanics.

Ticker tape parade for presidential candidate Richard Nixon in New York in 1960 Definition of Chance Chance considers the range of events which could possibly happen.

While probability attempts to narrow this domain possibility, a study of idiosyncrasy expands the definition of chance to include the unanticipated, the unexplained, and the impossible.

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Famous Predictions

Idiosyncrasy TENSIONS BETWEEN STASIS AND INSTABILITY

Hello America, J. G. Ballard: Bering Strait Damn

Agents of Interdependence and Instability

In Ballard’s speculative fiction, the Soviet Union dammed the Bering Strait in the 1990s, thus changing global weather patterns by reversing currents in the Pacific Ocean and making wheat growth possible in the arctic circle.

1954 Popular Mechanics January

M I N ERAL RESOU RCES Tin, Graphite, and Gold The source for most of the 7-million ounces of gold recovered from the Bering Straits region has yet to be mined. In addition, it is rich in a wide variety of minerals that are becoming increasingly critical to modern life in the United States. As such, much of the roughly 2.2 million acres of land conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was selected for its gold, tin, and other mineral potential.

M I LI TARY PRESEN CE

Although the Russians were able to grow grain as far north as the Arctic Circle, a massive drought began east of the Rocky Mountains. In 1956, USSR actually proposed building a 90km wide dam across the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska, choking off the Pacific Ocean’s access to the Arctic.

In an area with the “potential for tapping a quarter of the planet’s undiscovered oil and gas, a flood of interest in energy exploration could heighten tensions over other issues.” So far, no disputes have provoked a military response, however, most of the Arctic states have also asserted their right to defend their offshore territories with force and have taken steps to enhance their ability to fight in these areas. Russia, for example, recently announced plans to establish what it calls a “cutting-edge military infrastructure” in the Arctic..”

EXTREME WEATHER Commercial Rationales and Risks The enhanced physical risks, together with the environmental risks, will lead to greater liability risks (and therefore potential liability costs) including pollution and third-party death or injury. For example, removing bunker fuel can be more challenging not only because of the extreme conditions, but also because the heavy-duty fuel used is potentially more polluting and ships may be carrying more fuel to enable them to trade in remote locations.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/rushing-for-the-arctics-riches.html

Idiosyncrasy HOLLYWOOD, PEACOCKING, AND CONSTRUCTING THE ARCHITECTURAL MYTH OF AMERICA

Maintaining Status through Size

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Open Skies Treaty 2

Over-the-horizon radar (OTH)

Signed March 24, 1992, the Open Skies Treaty permits each state-party to conduct short-notice reconnaissance flights over the others’ entire territories to collect data on military forces and activities. Observation aircraft used to fly the missions are equipped with sensors that enable the observation.

OTH radars have recently made a comeback, as the need for accurate long-range tracking becomes less important with the ending of the Cold War, and less-expensive groundbased radars are once again being considered for roles such as maritime reconnaissance.

The Open Skies Treaty at a Glance | Arms Control Association. Retrieved November 2, 2021, from https://www.armscontrol.org/

Wikimedia Foundation. (2021, September 30).

Over-the-horizon radar. Retrieved November 2, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Aerial Signals

Prosperity Insurance

Airplane boneyards aren’t scrapyards.

Created as part of the 1992 nonproliferation treaty where countries laid out armaments for flyover observation. Big Diomede hosts the remains of Lisunov Li-2 belonging to Soviet Border Troops that crashed on June 13, 1970, possibly as a signal.

America and Russia have decided to outsource the technological arms race to demonstrate their equilibrium between to the Diomedes . The islands must be continuously monitored and reconciled to one another, a task which increases in difficulty as the weather becomes more erratic

Wikimapia. Остов ЛИ-2. (n.d.). Retrieved November 3, 2021, from http://wikimapia. org/36893029/ru/Остов-ЛИ-2

Westad, O. A. (2017, August 28). The Cold War and America’s delusion of victory. The New York Times. Retrieved November 4, 2021.

Peacocking Size Equalization As a means of demonstrating equilibrium between the two countries, the engineer involved in designing the space glove for the Americans to shake hands with the Russians had to create prosthetic enlargements to ensure they were of similar size. The handshake had to be visually equal.

A tactic employed by the American administration in their scheme to relocate the United Nations and prove themselves as a modern world power is encapsulated in the metaphor of expanding plumage in some bird species.

A female sage-grouse (center bird) evaluates two sage-grouse males [Photo: Anna C. Perry].

Herron, S. (2021, November). Presentation Response. Unit 10 Fall Crits. London; Zoom.

Peacock tail as expandable structure.

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Idiosyncrasy PROJECT CRITICAL THINKING

Critical Thinking (Project Manifesto) Problem (Relations): If, as they say, “we dislike no one so much as our nearest neighbour,” reflections create anomalies. They re-enact the complexity of experience in their unexplainable realities.

The reflection we see in our neighbor is always ‘too close to home.’

Cause (Environment): Stasis from a state of transition, like the wave or whirlpool, whose elements constantly change in maintaining a greater form. Finally synchronized, a cascade in motion works through itself towards a state where tension belies dependence.

Even apparent stasis is in transition making prediction impossible.

Effect (Spatial and Economic Outcome): The boundary reflecting itself, now a twin, impossible phenomena in their relation. No matter of chance from one into the other. When what has come and what is to come are one, two are in-between.

The past reaching out for the future, in bad or good faith, and futility.

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Idiosyncrasy SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Uncertainty, Unpredictability Around Geological Resources “Oil and gas deposits are believed to exist under the Bering Shelf and along the margin of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The extent of potential reserves, however, is unknown.”

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DIOMEDE ISLANDS

Manifestations of Socio-political Tensions Around the Diomede Islands

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/rushing-for-the-arctics-riches.html

M I N ERAL RESOU RCES Rushing for the Arctic’s Riches “While existing oil and gas reserves in other parts of the world are facing steep decline, the Arctic is thought to possess vast untapped reservoirs.

Approximately 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil deposits and 30 percent of its natural gas reserves are above the Arctic Circle. Russia and its Arctic neighbors, Canada, Norway, the United States, Iceland and Denmark (Greenland) have encouraged energy companies to drill in the region.”

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M I LI TARY PRESEN CE

“As more companies push operations into the Arctic, the risk of accidents and spills is bound to increase. The fact that Shell, one of the most technically advanced oil companies, has so far proved unable to overcome these risks should provoke intense concern over the prospect that other, less proficient firms will soon be operating in these perilous waters.”

“The Bering Shelf is the largest drillable shallow marine area in the free world.”

Blanton, S. L. (1977, May 1). Geology of the bering shelf. OnePetro. Retrieved November 4, 2021, from https://onepetro. org/OTCONF/proceedings/77OTC/All-77OTC/OTC-2727-MS/46890.

Lloyd’s of London. Arctic Opening: Opportunity and Risk in the High North

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In an area with the “potential for tapping a quarter of the planet’s undiscovered oil and gas, a flood of interest in energy exploration could heighten tensions over other issues.” So far, no disputes have provoked a military response, however, most of the Arctic states have also asserted their right to defend their offshore territories with force and have taken steps to enhance their ability to fight in these areas. Russia, for example, recently announced plans to establish what it calls a “cutting-edge military infrastructure” in the Arctic..”

INFRASTRUCTURE

“The risk of conflict over the ownership of contested territories is likely to grow. Five of the Arctic states have asserted exclusive drilling rights to boundary areas also claimed by one of the others, and control over the polar region itself remains contentious.”

RISK MANAGEMENT Commercial Rationales and Risks The enhanced physical risks, together with the environmental risks, will lead to greater liability risks (and therefore potential liability costs) including pollution and third-party death or injury. For example, removing bunker fuel can be more challenging not only because of the extreme conditions, but also because the heavy-duty fuel used is potentially more polluting and ships may be carrying more fuel to enable them to trade in remote locations.

EXTREME WEATHER

HABITAT DISRUPTION

WARMING OCEANS

Idiosyncrasy WEATHER CONDITIONS, THE DIOMEDE ISLANDS

Geographical Anomaly: Eastern Edge or Farthest West?

Meteoblue. (2021, October 22). Historical Climate & Weather Data for Diomede Islands. Retrieved October 28, 2021, from https:// www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/historyclimate/climatemodelled/diomede-islands_russia_4031746.

Weather Patterns, Data of the Diomede Islands TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION

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Idiosyncrasy PROGRAMS WITH UNEXPLAINABLE LOGIC

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Gazing into the Past and Watching the Future

Capitalizing on the Changing Climate

Communication Through Large Patterns

Military observation posts operate along the ridges of the Russian island of Big Diomede. There is a base on the northern side and no civilians. The American island of Little Diomede has no government or military presence. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-34090054

The Bering Strait has generally frozen between mid-December and midJune. Due to annual variations of the ice sheet, runways to access islands change position every year, though increasing temperatures jeopardize this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Diomede_Island

The agreement requires both islands to continuously monitor the other’s physical state, observing variations across the date line and inferring encrypted messages based on formations. Each side deploys a series of standard messaging cues, as well as tricks of light and form in an attempt to project secret assertions of dominance. Like the optical illusions found in illustrations of the everyday, these tricks play with scale and perspective across the 3 kilometer expanse of sea between the land masses. The dichotomous relationship of the twins allows interesting programmatic possibilities to evolve into intriguing architectural forms

“On top of the ridge there are two houses with soldiers, border guards, who are watching and observing us each and every day. Further over there are two more observation posts and on the side of the island there’s a military base with 100 troops, maybe more. They’re watching us, we’re watching them.”

Climate change has opened shipping routes in the Arctic, but also created new geopolitical frontiers. A difficult question surrounds the Arctic geography.

Who will decide what level of extraction can take place and how will issues of land rights, environmental protection, and borders be negotiated.

Idiosyncrasy PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Seasonal Variability

Diomede Islands’ Biota and Ecosystem by Category FLORA DIATOM ALGAE

Davies, P. J. , Bogdanov, . Konstantin Trifonovich , Alekseev, . Arkady Vladimirovich and Lisitsin, . Aleksandr Petrovich (2019, May 19).

Bering Sea and Strait. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Bering-Sea

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Idiosyncrasy PROJECT NARRATIVE STORYBOARD

DEVELOPMENT

AUTONOMY

1 The Re-branding of American Heroism for the 21st Century Now fully ensconced in the globalizing 21st century and seeking a new image in the aftermath of the Trump presidency, Biden’s America adopts a forward-facing branding strategy focused on cooperation and climate responsibility. Through this futuristic stance, the administration is nonetheless seeking to stroke the egos of American power and quell anxieties over its diminishing contributions on the world stage. Reminiscent of their leveraged position during the Cold War, the American Government takes on a delusional role as brotherly advisor to Russia, dissuading the extraction of its arctic oil reserves, and benevolent provider to China, offering energy supplies and financial support to level the playing field of global climate negotiations.

In order to accomplish this the country offers many gifts to its compatriots, the most important being the relocation of the United Nations to a shared site directly in between the ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ continents along the international dateline between the Diomede Islands.

2 Russian Oil Reserves as Bargaining Chip in Geopolitical Agreement DIOMEDE ISLANDS

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4 Brokered Agreements, Relocation to Shared Site of Climate Vulnerability

3 Coal Mines in China create Negative Image and Cause for Cooperation This is a site where the effects of climate change are felt far more acutely than the barricaded current building in New York, and through this move America hopes to appease its neighbours and maintain the status quo by taking on the new mantle of world power as the heroic leader organizing the defenses against climate change. The offering to move the UN to a shared site is seen as a concession to Putin, showing cooperation with his wishes to “restore the Soviet Union” and command more autonomy as a country.

The Diomedes become the “chessboard” where negotiations are acted out and the flyovers take place, deescalating the military presence in eastern Europe, while also offering China secure and internationally friendly route for development.

Troianovski, A. (2021, November 19). On Putin’s strategic chessboard, a series of destabilizing moves. The New York Times.

LONGEVITY COOPERATION

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6 Russia gains National Autonomy through Shared United Nations Site

7 China receives Equal Footing in Negotiations with Renewable Energy

Idiosyncrasy MAPPING GLOBAL IMPACTS

COAL PLANTS IN CHINA

OIL + GAS POTENTIAL

https://www.carbonbrief.org/ china-should-rapidly-close186-coal-plants-to-help-meetits-climate-goals-study-says

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The distribution and probability of potential oil and gas fields in the Arctic.

Source: US Geological Survey

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The new shared site for the United Nations creates opportunities for global development wherein each leading power holds a stake in the success of the “21st century space race” to detect and divert climate change.

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Idiosyncrasy UNPREDICTABILITY: AMERICA’S GLOBAL IDENTITY AND ARCHITECTURAL FUTURE

Research Contexts On a general level, the research will look at questions around America’s international relationships and its claim to authority within the United Nations.

It will also question the status and effectiveness of the United Nations as a global entity. Is New York City a legitimate siting for an organization with interest in world affairs or might America’s forgotten border with the eastern continent provide a far more effective location for assessing and dealing with issues on a global scale.

Negotiating Consensus - Spaces of Diversion As a starting case study, an investigation of the United Nations headquarters in New York city has been undertaken. Of primary interest were the number of alternative locations fielded during the projects proposal stage, including a site on Navy Island at the American-Canadian border and “a ship on the high seas to housing the entire complex in a single tall building.” These serve both as references for the design project and as a base from which a catalogue of research case studies investigating the process behind constructing spaces of consensus. In the context of the United Nations, could a modernist culture based on ‘closed-door’ spaces be a catalyst for diversion and abdication of responsibilities?

Navy Island, proposed to be the new World Peace Capital and headquarters of the United Nations by an international committee in 1945 and 1946.

The modernist proposal in New York, chosen over the Navy Island proposal was influenced by city planners, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, the Rockefeller family, and architects including Le Corbusier (France) and Oscar Niemeyer (Brazil). The top left Security Council as an example of ‘closed-doors’ design (curtains draw so sunlight can’t favour delegates).

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Apuzzo, M.; Hurtes, S. (2021, June 3). Tasked to fight climate change, a secretive U.N. agency does the opposite. The New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/world/europe/climate-change.html.

Idiosyncrasy THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Relocating and Repositioning the Organs of the UN The General Assembly is the only United Nations organization where every country has a seat, and therefore requires the complex space for deliberation and consensus-building. To accommodate it’s expansive, multi-valent requirements, this program is sited on the flat shelf on top of Yesterday Isle. The Secretariat encompasses the UN’s primary executive functions. As the most outward-looking and open to new initiatives, they become part of the olive branch extending across to the date line and international border. The Security Council oversees the maintenance of peace and consist of the victorious military powers of the 20th century.

Responsible for managing the arsenals, it’s primary responsibility is similar to the “Park of Aggression,” allowing planners to conduct make-believe conflicts, broker for rewards, and organizing flyover missions between the islands to ensure the displayed arsenals are in balance. The ECOSOC then reacts to the elaborate machinations of the Security Council by forecasting the future, using the events played out between Yesterday and Tomorrow islands to inform climatic, economic, and resource allocation decisions.

The International Court of Justice opts to remain home in the Hauge, broadcasting news from the new UN Headquarters to Europe across a 23hour time difference. The Trusteeship Council, which has lacked a reason for existence since 1994 when the last trust territories became independent. To restore the council to its former glory, it is proposed to introduce a new trust territory for global common resources, namely the atmosphere, oceans, and fragile arctic environment. The overzealous Trusteeship is too excitable for a stationary existence and so it ambulates between the programs observing and managing environments through the collection of detailed weather data.

General Assembly

Security Council

The main deliberative organ of the United Nations. It is composed of representatives from all Member States, each of which has one vote.

To be hosted on the flat peak of Little Diomede where there is ample space.

Under the original United Nations Charter, the Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. It has 15 Members, and each Member has one vote.

Economic and Social Council

Trusteeship Council

A founding Charter body established in 1946, the place where the world’s economic, social and environmental challenges are discussed/debated, and policy recommendations issued, now forecasting center for futurologists

The Trusteeship Council was established to provide international supervision for 11 Trust Territories and to make sure that adequate steps were taken to prepare the Territories for self-government or independence.

International Court of Justice

Secretariat

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. The Court is charged with settling legal disputes between States and giving advisory opinions to the United Nations and its agencies.

Consisting of staff representing all nationalities working in duty stations all over the world, servicing the other principal organs of the United Nations and administers the programmes and policies established by them.

United Nations. Un structure. United Nations. Retrieved November 19, 2021, from https://www.un.org/en/model-united-nations/ un-structure.

Wykenseagrave. (2017, October 17). United Nations. United Nations Association Coventry Branch. Retrieved November 19, 2021, from https://unacov.uk/united-nations/.

TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL

Wykenseagrave. (2017, October 17). United Nations. United Nations Association Coventry Branch. Retrieved November 19, 2021, from https://unacov.uk/united-nations/.

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Idiosyncrasy NEW FUNCTIONS FOR THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANS

Branding Strategy - ‘United Natures’ Environmental Movement

General Assembly

Security Council (Boundary)

Economic and Social Council

Trusteeship Council

Embassies (Courts of Justice)

Secretariat

”We’ve got a United Nations that still talks about sustainable development, sustainable growth. How do we influence the United Nations and the environmental movement as it exists to change that paradigm?”

- Jeff Gibbs, Director, Planet of the Humans

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Le Page, M. (2020, September 10). Winter Ice in the Bering Sea is doomed to disappear within decades. New Scientist. Retrieved December 4, 2021, from https://www.newscientist.com/article/2253501-winter-ice-in-the-bering-sea-is-doomed-to-disappear-within-decades/.

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Cornwall, W. (2019, May 17). Science. Retrieved December 5, 2021, from https://www.researchgate. net/publication/333187329_QA_On_a_Bering_Sea_island_disappearing_ice_threatens_a_way_of_life.

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Pieces are compressed while checkpoint cold stores generate mirages in the few daylight hours. OBSCURE.

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Idiosyncrasy HOLLYWOOD AND ARCHITECTURAL DECEPTION

Props, Sets, and Spatial Trickery By moving the UN to the Diomedes, American interests are seeking to bolster their political status. The town, already dwindling in population, is evacuated and replaced by intelligence agents acting out the roles of locals, giving America back-room access and oversight to any goings-on within the council. Similarly, the development and construction of the new UN capitalizes on the shroud of secrecy granted by the numerous obscuring site conditions like fog, low light, arctic mirages, and glare from snow and ice.

America puts its greatest asset to work, using the spatial trickery and efficient visual sets of Hollywood to enhance the perception of their contribution to global diplomacy. Every aspect of the proceedings is meticulously planned and orchestrated by series of architectural props. Though these appear as mere showy coincidences of environment to the visiting constituents, they are no matter of chance.

Patowary, K. (2020, August 19). How the military hid the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant. Amusing Planet. Retrieved December 18, 2021, from https://www.amusingplanet.com/2010/12/how-military-hid-lockheed-burbank.html

Disguised WW2 Lockhead Aircraft hangar in Burbank, California and scene from the film Home Alone, 1999. Columbus, Chris, John Hughes, Julio Macat, Raja Gosnell, John Williams, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Catherine O’Hara.

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Authority Magazine. (2018, July 6). Retrieved December 17, 2021, from https://medium.com/authority-magazine/the-glamour-and-glitzthat-many-associate-with-hollywood-is-really-just-a-fa%C3%A7ade-with-steve-2d020ebe524b

Nweke, B. (2021, May 6). How Britain’s inflatable tanks and rubber soldiers fooled Hitler’s entire Army. Medium. Retrieved December 17, 2021, from https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/how-britains-inflatable-tanks-and-rubber-soldiers-fooled-

WEATHER CONDITIONS

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Councils are grouped around the island and broadcast effects outwards through the secretariat. FREEZE.

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This can be used to generate energy and drink. WATER.

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Idiosyncrasy MASTERPLAN LAYOUT - LUCKY HORSEHOE TABLE

Embodying Luck and Chance at the Scale of Landscape

The Reincarnating Crane

It is said that a visitor once came to the home of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Niels Bohr and, having noticed a horseshoe hung above the entrance, asked incredulously if the professor believed horseshoes brought good luck. “No,” Bohr replied, “but I am told that they bring luck even to those who do not believe in them.” (Niels Bohr’s Lucky Horseshoe. Lapham’s Quarterly. Retrieved December 3, 2021, from https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/magic-shows/miscellany/niels-bohrs-lucky-horseshoe.)’th

Transposed to the new site, the United Nations adopts the symbolism of the reincarnating crane in it’s Security Council’s mural, signifying the reinvention of the institution and the environmental movement which is now its chief concern.

The horseshoe also borrows from the symbolism of Omega, the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet. Omega (Ω), essentially means the end of something, the last, the ultimate limit of a set, or the “Great End,” signifying a grand closure, like the conclusion of a large-scale event.

Sandvik, Maria Veie (2014). “Per Krohg’s Painting in the United Nations Security Council”. German Review on the United Nations. 60: 156–162.

Glambek, Ingeborg (2005). “The Council Chambers in the UN Building in New York.” Scandinavian Journal of Design History. 15: 8–39.

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Idiosyncrasy CANARIES IN THE COAL MINE: MIGRATORY BIRDS AS A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD

Crane Symbol as Protection from Debris and Sunlight

Bird Migration Patterns as a Symbol of Climate Change

In the chance event of damaging debris falling from the sky, the crane tectonics protect the fragile balance of the institution on the Diomedes below. Their main purpose is the cooling of the site via reflective wing panels, which deflective the warming radiation of the sun back our of the atmosphere. They are further equipped with tracking devices and thrusters in order to deal with collisions and objects falling from the sky.

The new United Nations facility on the Diomedes attracts ‘watchers’ to account for new bird species driven north by climate change (Noah’s Ark).

“Eleven species of birds including such as puffins and guillemots[9] have been found on Big Diomede. In 1976 a rufous hummingbird was identified on the island. This finding, unique so far in Russia, was very likely due to a dispersed specimen.”

“Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range;[1] they are known as vagrants.

The term accidental is sometimes also used. There are a number of poorly understood factors which might cause an animal to become a vagrant, including genetics and weather.”

BBC. (2021, November 11). COP26: China and US agree to boost Climate Co-operation. BBC News. Retrieved November 17, 2021, from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59238869.

Chown, Steven L.; Greve, Michelle; Kellermann, Jürgen; Medan, Diego; Kalwij, Jesse M. (2019-03-15). “Vagrant birds as a dispersal vector in transoceanic range expansion of vascular plants”. Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 4655. Bibcode:2019NatSR...9.4655K

“Gibson notes that, for such tiny creatures, hummingbirds are prodigious travelers. One rufous flew across the Pacific and ended up in Asia, landing en route on Russia’s Big Diomede Island. An east-of the-Rockies ruby-throat somehow made it to Nome, Alaska; another was found on the tundra at St. Michael’s. And Costa’s hummingbirds - considered desert-dwellers - have journeyed to southern Alaska on four separate recorded occasions.”

Long-distance migratory birds face elevated climate change risk

Newfield, Nancy L.; Nielsen, Barbara (1996). Hummingbird Gardens: Attracting Nature’s Jewels to Your Backyard. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 53–. ISBN 1-881527-87-5.

Photo: Michel Terrettaz, © WWF Canon

BBC. (2021, November 16). Russian anti-satellite missile test draws condemnation. BBC News. Retrieved November 17, 2021, from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59299101.

Spencer, B. (2021, November 14). 40,000 attendees, 15 days but was it all a waste of time? The Sunday Times. Retrieved November 17, 2021, from https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f1688cca-4499-11ec-90eb-40ff5161f067?shareToken=2514b61e3c.

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Climate change could reduce the arctic breeding range of the Siberian crane by 70%. This long-distance migratory bird is already critically endangered

Latest news | page 6 | science | AAAS - sciencemag.org. Retrieved November 12, 2021, from https://www.sciencemag.org/news/ latest-news?_ga=2.219321561.1315751417.1568130118-308639002.1568130118&page=5.

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This image is a still frame. The animated version can be viewed in the in the narrated .mp4 file (BARC0175_22_AngersLuke_PG10_Narrated02.mp4 at 6:10) submitted along with this portfolio.

WEATHER CONDITIONS

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Idiosyncrasy VISUAL TRICKS AND EXTREME SEASONALITY - AMERICA’S STRATEGY

Making Use of Arctic Water’s Visual Qualities

Potemkin Displays, Strategic Lighting

Strategies - Mirage, Alignment, and Forced Perspective

In constructing the underwater elements of the proposal, there are numerous opportunities for America to create ‘larger-than-life’ impressions using the refractive qualities of water, ice, and air density above colder areas.

To expand perceptions of the project, Potemkin displays capitalize on the single lookout point available to Russia. Furthermore, in the darkened winter conditions, dispersed lighting creates illusions of expanse and depth.

By aligning points in plane with the lookout’s field of view, further impressions of grand constructions are created. Adding detail to smaller elements and forcing perspectives also deceive, and arctic mirages ‘hover’ UN assemblies.

Day and night at the Sino-North Korean border region: Kang Dong-wan, Dong-a University

Jaytso666. (2020, October 31). The science of forced perspective at Disney Parks. YouTube. Retrieved November 27, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqefjmRVLTM&t=1009s.

Arctic mirages are produced by cooling the ground plane, and water magnifies distant objects.

America ‘hovers’ constructions by maintaining a temperature gradient between planes.

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Idiosyncrasy THE CRANE TECTONIC

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Idiosyncrasy CHOREOGRAPHING THE UN - YEARLY VISITING SCHEDULE

Using Fog and Mirage Effects to Obscure Shortcomings “For over a week, thick ice fog prohibited air travel, and we were forced to settle for this second attempt in March. When we returned, poor flying conditions confronted us for another eight days; we even flew halfway out only to turn back as the fog thickened over the open water in the straight.”

Olson, B. (2021, March 11). Alarm Bells for little Diomede Island. Alaska Magazine. https://alaskamagazine.com/authentic-alaska/

Paired with the visual tool of fog, arctic mirages can be used to ‘hover’ objects mid-air.

Aligning Functions with Seasonal Light and Weather Conditions

UN functions are grouped seasonally for access to darkness (nightfall hours)

Night does not fall from Apr. 6 - Sept. 6

December 22nd is optimal for ceremonies with under 3 hours of daylight

June 18-25 is spent in constant daylight

Big Diomede Island, Russia - sunrise, sunset, and daylength, November 2021. timeanddate.com. (n.d.). Retrieved November 26, 2021, from https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@4031569.

Typical Annual Schedule for United Nations Sessions PROGRAMME BY MONTH

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General Assembly (Central) Intensive Sessions Group Member States (Melt) Advisory Sessions (Budget) Economic Council Meeting Enabling Projects (America) High Fog Frequency Displays Arctic Mirage Potential Prop Workshop Hibernation General Assembly functions are grouped around times high freeze-thaw cycles, highlighting the need for cooperation and immediate action on climate issues.

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Idiosyncrasy ANNUAL TIMELINE - GENERAL ASSEMBLY ICE INITIATIVE

Preparation Begins: To welcome their guests to the harsh climate of the Diomedes, American workers produce heated assembly seats in the workshop.

General Assembly Arrives: Spring weather brings the annual meeting of the General Assembly, just in time to begin the ice collection process with released embassies.

Returning Ice to the Arctic: Fused ice is returned deep into the Arctic where it will be protected from melting as the UN’s contribution to prevent rising sea levels.

Chance Migration of the Trusteeship: Depending on whether the table can continue to sustain the debates of the United Nations, the Trusteeship cranes may or may not arrive.

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Deploying the Embassies: When construction is completed, embassies with their quota of seats are lined up along the international dateline and border with Russia.

FORMING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S ICE TABLE PLANS ON THE FOLLOWING 5 PAGES

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Fusing Ice Floes: As temperatures warm, the ambassadors and delegates primary task is to protect and fuse the collected ice with fresh water for return.

Counters Track the Remaining Ice in Table: The assembly table remains as a reminder of the warming climate. Lookout stations initially used to spot floating ice keep track of its size.

Councils Reevaluate Progress: Based on reports of the sustained ice mass the planning process for the following year is adjusted.

+0.0m LATE MARCH. Ice reaches the border, America pulls the Embassies into position using their influence in the (Food) Security Council, lines of greenhouses which prevent the table from reaching to close.

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1. GATHERING FORMING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S ICE TABLE LATE MARCH - EARLY JULY

+0.0m APRIL. In preparation for the General Assembly gather iced is grouped around the island to begin the formation of a horseshoe table around the island where negotiations will take place.

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2. FORMING FORMING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S ICE TABLE LATE MARCH - EARLY JULY

+0.0m MAY. As temperatures warm, ambassadors and delegates are invited to the site for the meeting of the General Assembly, where their primary task is to protect and fuse the collected ice for return.

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3. FUSING FORMING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S ICE TABLE LATE MARCH - EARLY JULY

+0.0m JUNE. Fused ice is returned deep into the Arctic where it will be protected from melting as the UN’s contribution to prevent rising sea levels. The table remains as a reminder of the warming climate.

(TABLE LEFT BEHIND)

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4. RETURNING FORMING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S ICE TABLE LATE MARCH - EARLY JULY

+0.0m EARLY JULY. With the counter keeping track, parts of the remaining table melt away depending on the project’s success - to show the importance of cooperation and acceptance in the face of chance

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5. MELTING FORMING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S ICE TABLE LATE MARCH - EARLY JULY

Idiosyncrasy MARITIME BOUNDARIES - DIOMEDES AGREEMENT

Public Documents Detailing the Border Agreement “Through its transfer of jurisdiction provisions, it also ensures that coastal state jurisdiction, in accordance with international law, is exercised by one or the other Party in all marine areas within 200 nautical miles of either or both coasts. Therefore, the agreement will permit more effective regulation of marine resource activities and other ocean uses and removes a significant potential source of dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union. I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to this agreement and advise and consent to ratification.”

GEORGE BUSH. https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/US_Russia_1990.pdf

Exact Coordinates Agreed Upon LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

ANNEX DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, September 6, 1990.

The geographic positions set forth in this Annex are on the

The PRESIDENT,

The White House.

World Geodetic System 1984 ("WGS 84”) and, except where noted, are connected by geodetic lines.

THE PRESIDENT: I have the honor to submit to you, with a view to the transmittal to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification, the Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Maritime Boundary, with Annex, signed at Washington, June 1, 1990. The Agreement establishes the maritime boundary between the United States and the Soviet Union in the North Pacific Ocean, Bering and Chukchi Seas and the Arctic Ocean. Also enclosed for the information of the Senate is an illustrative chart of the maritime boundary.

The maritime boundary defines the limits within which each Party may exercise territorial sea jurisdiction or exclusive economic zone jurisdiction in these areas where their claimed 12 nautical mile territorial seas or 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zones would otherwise overlap or were otherwise in dispute. It also delimits, as between the Parties, such continental shelf jurisdiction beyond 200 nautical miles from their coasts as they may exercise in accordance with international law in the Arctic Ocean, Bering and Chukchi Seas and a portion of the North Pacific Ocean.

As such, the Agreement resolves differences with respect to where each Party has the right to manage fisheries and oil and gas exploration and development, as well as exercise other sovereign rights and jurisdiction that both Parties claimed, in these marine areas. Through its transfer of jurisdiction provisions, it also ensures that coastal state jurisdiction, in accordance with international law, is exercised by one or the other Party in all marine areas within 200 nautical miles of either or both coasts. The Agreement, therefore, will permit more effective regulation of marine resource activities and certain other ocean uses and removes a significant potential source of dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Negotiations on the maritime boundary were initiated in 1981 and continued over the following nine years. The negotiations addressed a number of significant issues. First, the Parties needed to agree on the basis for defining the limits of their maritime jurisdiction, where such jurisdiction permitted under international law would otherwise overlap. The United States regarded the line described in Article 1 of the Convention Ceding Alaska, signed March 30, 1867 (the 1867 Convention Line) as the maritime boundary and sought Soviet agreement on this position.

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maritime boundary extends north along, the 168° 58' 37" W. meridian through the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea into the Arctic Ocean as far as permitted under international law.

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TREATY DOC. 101-22

From the same initial point, the maritime boundary extends southwestward connecting the following geographic positions:

AGREEMENT WITH THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS ON THE MARITIME BOUNDARY

MESSAGE FROM

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65° 19' 58" N., 65° 09' 51" N., 64° 59' 41" N., 64° 49' 26" N., 64° 39' 08" N., 64° 28' 46" N., 64° 18' 20" N., 64° 07' 50" N., 63° 59' 27" N.,

169° 169° 170° 170° 170° 171° 171° 172° 172°

21' 44' 07' 30' 52' 15' 37' 00' 18'

38" 34" 23" 06" 43" 14" 40" 00" 39"

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172° 172° 173° 173° 173° 174° 174° 174° 175° 175°

37' 55' 14' 32' 50' 08' 26' 44' 02' 20'

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36" 19" 59" 34" 04" 31" 53" 11" 26" 36°

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178° 49' 45" W.

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179° 06' 44" W.

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60° 24' 44" N.,

179° 23' 38" W.

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60° 15' 14" N.,

179° 40' 30" W.

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60° 11' 39" N.,

179° 46' 49" W.;

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

thence, it extends along an arc with a radius of 200 nautical miles and a center at 60° 38' 23" N., 173° 06' 54" W. to 37.

TRANSMITTING

THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS ON THE MARITIME BOUNDARY, WITH ANNEX, SIGNED AT WASHINGTON, JUNE 1, 1990

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170° 18' 31" E.

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170° 05' 29" E.

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167° 59' 49" E.

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21' 10' 59' 48' 37' 26' 15' 04'

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 39-118

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58° 57' 18" N.,

178° 33' 59" E.;

thence, it extends along an arc with a radius of 200 nautical miles and a center at 62° 16' 09" N., 179° 05' 34" E. to 39.

58° 58' 14" N.,

178° 15' 05" E.

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178° 14' 37" E.

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177° 58' 14" E.

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177° 41' 53" E.

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177° 25' 34" E.

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177° 09' 18" E.

167° 47' 42" E. 167° 35' 40" E.

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176° 53' 04" E.

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171° 51' 24" E.

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171° 35' 51" E.

thence, it extends along an arc with a radius of 200 nautical miles and a center at 54° 29' 42" N., 168° 05' 25" E. to

SEPTEMBER 26, 1990. — Agreement was read the first time, and together with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate.

179° 40' 55" W.;

thence, it extends southwestward along the rhumb line, defined by the following points: 64° 05' 08" N., 172° 00' 00" W., 53° 43' 42" N., 170° 18' 31" E. to

E. E. E. E.

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Idiosyncrasy KEY QUOTE + ARM’S LENGTH DATELINE TECTONIC

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Capitol at rest

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Capitol with threatened ego

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Capitol exuding confidence

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“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”

1

- Sun Tzu (496 BC) and Michael Corleone (1974 AD)

Commemorative Department of Futurology

ECONOMIC / POLITICAL 80

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Russian Spire (Lighthouse)

2

Communication Line

3

American Capitol (Inflatable)

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Wellington Weather Station

Executive Branch for Legislative Control of Chance

Office of Co-operative Strategy and Equal Development

Futures and Markets Predictions

Weather Regulation Machine

Tectonic War Game Table

Status: Co-operative

Status: Co-operative

Status: Co-operative

The key economic driver of the project is the 21st century’s new trading floor where all of the Ministry’s information is relayed and processed creating ever-more accurate predictions.

The most complex apparatus in the Ministry’s jurisdiction employs all manner of spatial, visual, and chemical technologies in order to stabilize the Diomedes’ weather patterns.

The architectural scale war-games table allows both countries to act out their negotiations and reactions to the futurologist’s predictions in full view of the oversight committee.

PERFORMATIVE / POLITICAL

VISUAL / PERFORMATIVE

AMBASSADOR TECTONIC PLAN A

Potemkin Shadow Casting

B

Courts of Justice Bay

C

Collapsible Sail/Arm Rotation

D

Negotiation Map Projection

E

American Kitchen/Provisions

F

Folding Seating/Roof Structure

G

Single Court = Delegate Seating

193 Total Countries/Seats in the General Assembly Meeting Table ÷ 45 Ambassador Tectonics forming the Horseshoe Meeting Table = 4 Countries’ Assembly Seats per Ambassador Tectonic Harbor C

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Arms Length ≤ 80m (minimum distance for visibility in thick fog) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ESTIMATION-OF-VISIBILITY-DISTANCE-IN-IMAGES-UNDER-Jeevan-Usha/1a2fe0c66111b69b277cf46856858196d579c24b

https://elpais.com/elpais/2011/06/01/ actualidad/1306910932_850215.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/politicians-serveorwellian-tennis-rules-11591139878

KEY PLAN

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Idiosyncrasy DISTORTING THE WORLD MAP ON THE SHIP OF CONTINGENCY

Standard Mercator Projection

Contingency: New Key Word World governments and the United Nations alike are tasked with developing plans for many different scenarios. Contingency planning is the aspect such tasks that takes into account outcomes and consequences which vary from the usual expectations of the future.

Contingency planning is a form of risk management, undertaken on the off-chance that exceptional circumstances arise. Even if such circumstances are unlikely, plans are imperative in order to avoid catastrophic consequences, and should be required of governments and other organizations undertaking consequential actions. For example, the EPA has a program dedicated to contingency planning and preparedness for environment-related events, including oil spills and the storage of hazardous materials.

Illustration by Albrecht Dürer in Stultifera navis (Ship of fools) by Sebastian Brant, published by Johann Bergmann von Olpe [de] in Basel in 1498

In the Mercator projection, the polar regions are completely distorted — Antarctica looks bigger than all other continents combined — and distances are misleading: Japan and Hawaii look very far apart. Under the system designed by Goldberg and Gott to quantify map errors, where lower numbers represent less distortion, the Mercator projection receives a score of 8.296.’ Credit: Map by Daniel R. Strebe via Wikimedia Commons

Dymaxion Polyhedral Projection - Improved Accuracy Foregrounding the Polar Proximity of Russia and America ‘Buckminster Fuller popularized the “Dymaxion” polyhedral projection, based on an unfolded icosahedron. Antarctica is “round, as it properly should be,” said Gott, but this projection “shatters” the oceans. Goldberg-Gott score: greater than 15’ Credit: NASA’s Earth Observatory, with modifications by Mapthematics LLC

Fuller-Wright, L. (2021, February 16). Astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, ‘radically different’ way to see the world. Phys.org. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://phys.org/news/2021-02-astrophysicists-re-imagine-world-distorted-radically.html

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Idiosyncrasy ASSEMBLY SEATING TECTONICS - INTERNATIONAL COURTS FOLDOUT SEQUENCE 6. SEATING FROZEN

UNFOLDED SEATING TECTONIC

2. MOVED TO FRONT

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Tree Billboard Battery

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Ice Patch Formation Skirt Skirt Piping Steam Nozzles Insulated Court Accommodation

8. TREES FOLD AROUND WIND EXPOSURE Note - Tree Billboards Manufactured in American Workshop (pp. 134-43)

Idiosyncrasy UNITED NATIONS DEMOGRAPHY

Facility Requirements: Annual Turnover and Permanent Resident Calculations The Program of Requirements is assembled and presented diagrammatically, including staffing and space requirements for the meeting halls, the Secretariat, other service areas, and Specialized Agencies for which provision might have to be made.

Information regarding the United Nations personnel requirements was sourced from the book detailing the design of the current headquarters in New York City: Dudley, G. A. (1994). A workshop for peace: Designing the United Nations Headquarters. Architectural History Foundation.

PERMANENT RESIDENT PERSONNEL SECRETARIAT

DEPARTMENTS SECURITY COUNCIL DEPARTMENTS AFFAIRS

DIVISIONS

= 500 EMPLOYEES

• GENERAL POLITICAL • ADMINISTRATIVE AND GENERAL • ENFORCEMENT MEASURES • ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION GROUP

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MONTHLY FLUCTUATION 4000

500 ESTIMATED INCREASE BY DEC. 2022 TOTAL 3050

2000

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENTS

SOCIAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENTS

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF

SECRETARY-GENERAL

TRUSTEESHIP and information from main seats DEPARTMENTS governing territories

• ECONOMIC STABILITY AND EMPLOYMENT • ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION AND SPECIAL STUDIES • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT • TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS

156

• DIVISION FOR COORDINATION AND LIAISON • HUMAN RIGHTS • REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS • DEMOGRAPHY • SOCIAL AFFAIRS

156

• NARCOTIC DRUGS

25 MISSIONS OF 5 PERSONS = 125 25 “ “ 20 “ = 500 15 “ “ 30 “ = 450 5 “ = 875 “ “ 175 70 MISSIONS = 1950

LEGAL DEPARTMENTS

215

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• GENERAL LEGAL PROBLEMS • DEVELOPMENT AND CODIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW • IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES • REGISTRATION OF TREATIES

CONFERENCE AND DEPARTMENTS GENERAL SERVICES

TECHNICAL SERVICES

1510 GENERAL SERVICES

ADMINISTRATIVE AND DEPARTMENTS FINANCIAL SERVICES

PERSONNEL 1 JANUARY 2022

TOTAL

263

2551

ADMIN. MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

PERSONNEL

COMPTROLLER

• EDITORIAL • LANGUAGES • DOCUMENTS AND SALES • OVERSEAS OFFICES • CONFERENCE COORDINATION • PURCHASE AND SUPPLY • COMMUNICATION AND REGISTRY SERVICE

4000 3000 +150

• PRESS • RADIO • OVERSEAS AND PUBLIC LIAISON • FILMS AND VISUAL INFORMATION

BUREAUS

+300

DELEGATIONS 6 PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS 250 PERSONS EACH = 1500 9 LIAISON OFFICES 5 PERSONS EACH = 45

43 PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENTS

90

SECRETARIAT

• TRUSTEESHIP • NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

67

+100

1000

• FISCAL • STATISTICAL OFFICE

• REFERENCE AND PUBLICATIONS

1000

SPECIALIZED AGENCIES

• LIBRARY SERVICE • PRESENTATION SERVICE

+900

• PROCEDURES • ESTIMATES AND ORGANIZATION • BUDGET • RECRUITMENT EXAMINING AND PLACEMENT • SALARY ADMINISTRATION • STAFF RELATIONS AND SERVICES

• TRAINING

• REGULATIONS AND INSPECTIONS • AUDIT • TREASURY

• GENERAL ACCOUNTS • TAX AND STAFF PENSIONS • BUDGET CONTROL AND ACCOUNTS

ALL STAFFS ENLARGED DURING GENERAL ASSEMBLY. SOME DURING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL AND TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL MEETINGS.

4000

6550

3000

6 ANNUAL CONFERENCES HELD AT UN HEADQUARTERS.

ANNUAL TURNOVER 1000

• TRANSPORTATION SERVICE • MAINTENANCE AND ENGINEERING SERVICE

+150

100 TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 300 DURING GENERAL ASSEMBLY

+800

MAXIMUM TEMPORARY RESIDENT PERSONNEL AT ANY ONE TIME . . . . . . .1200 PRESS FILM AND RADIO PERSONNEL . . . . . . . . . 800 DISTINGUISHED VISITORS, OBSERVERS ETC . . . . . .2000 4000

TOTAL

Idiosyncrasy FUNCTION: FUTUROLOGIST INTERZONE FOR PREDICTING, ACCOUNTING, AND BALANCING POWER Lasswitz, author of a futurist series of postcards with flying machines, movable houses, weather-altering devices, and rail lines underwater.

DIRIGIBLE WATER CROSSING

UNDERWATER RAILWAYS

Staffing the American Bases, Futurology Department Similar to the Rand Thinktank, established after World War II on the east coast of the United States to predict to consider the future of arms development and warfare, advising the government accordingly, the Futurology Department concerns itself with the new issues defining global power in the 21st century.

PUBLIC TRANSIT ROADWAYS

PERSONAL FLYING MACHINES

MOBILE ARCHITECTURE

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

While negotiating consensus and reconciliation between the two countries, a the futurologists who gather in the department organize studies of financial markets, blockchain technology, and global economic development. They attempt to redefine measures of power from military strength and resource extraction capacity to a new form of informational wealth, wherein education, trust, and natural values of air, space, and light are meticulously sought after.

The apparatus for spatial planning references the RAF Caledonian Sector Operations Centre, Barnton Quarry, where planning operations took place for two significant global periods of conflict that defined the 20th century, World War II and the Cold War.

X-RAY/RADIO VISION

A catalogue of important figures and moments in the study of futurology, past centuries.

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WEATHER-ALTERING CONTRAPTIONS

Idiosyncrasy MAINTAINING BALANCE: MANAGING DISRUPTIONS FROM SHIPPING ROUTES

Increased Shipping Traffic due to Resource Development “Sea ice in the Bering Sea and Bering Strait region has been forming later in the year and melting earlier for the past decade. The resulting longer window of open water around the Arctic, combined with other variables such as increasing trade and resource development, has led to a growth in vessel traffic.”

“Indigenous peoples, maritime experts, and conservationists have voiced concern that the increased traffic could have an adverse impact on ecosystems, wildlife, and communities. Now a new study shows that measures implemented to prevent such damage and disruption are working, at least to an extent.”

“As vessel traffic increases, most large ships are following new routes through the Bering Sea and Bering Strait that avoid sensitive marine habitat and reduce the risk of accidents or interference with subsistence activities, according to an Alaska environmental consulting firm.”

Huffines, E. (2020, May 20). Most large ships transiting Arctic use new routes that help protect environment and Communities.

The Pew Charitable Trusts. Retrieved November 8, 2021, from https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/ articles/2020/05/20/most-large-ships-transiting-arctic-use-new-routes-that-help-protect-environment-and-communities.

New data collected from ships shows the malleability of routes and potential for redirections in the future.

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Yesterday Isle (Town of Diomede) RUSSIA (MAINLAND)

Tomorrow Island

Uelen Polar Base Ratmanov Military Base

Tin City Air Force Station

Max. Depth 50m

USA (MAINLAND)

Idiosyncrasy SITE PHOTOS: NATURE AND MILITARY BASES OF THE BERING STRAIT

Ice Formations, Light Conditions and Fauna

Mainland Russia - Bases of the Chukotka Peninsula

Ratmanov Military Base - Inhabitants of Tomorrow Island

RUSSIA (MAINLAND) Yesterday Isle (Town of Diomede)

Tomorrow Island Uelen Polar Base

Ratmanov Military Base

Max. Depth 50m

USA (MAINLAND) Tin City Air Force Station

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Annual Mean Flow Channel

+0.0m Meteoblue. (2021, October 22). Historical Climate & Weather Data for Diomede Islands.

Woodgate et al., 2015, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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Prevailing Wind Direction

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Existing Town/Coast Guard Static Ceramic Wind Oscillators Potential Energy Water Battery Spaced Water Pumps/Generators Hidden Accommodation (USA) Main Workshop Floor Captured Ice Floes/Evidence

General Assembly Table National Flag Oscillators Potential Energy Water Battery American Admin. + Workshops

12pm

5pm

10pm

12pm

5pm

10pm

Main Workshop Floor Heat Reflector Buoys (Nuclear) Captured Ice Floes/Evidence WITH FLAGS

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

FLAG PLACEMENT - Comparison of Most Vulnerable Melt Day, Summer Solstice (June 21)

WITHOUT FLAGS

YESTERDAY ISLE SECTION

Afternoon Sun View Across Dateline

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Yesterday Isle (Town of Diomede) Ratmanov Military Base

Tomorrow Island

Max. Depth 36.5m

Idiosyncrasy OCEAN CURRENTS AND PROSPECTS FOR ENERGY GENERATION

Measurements Indicate Increasing Bering Strait In ow

Annual Mean Flow Paths Separate Around the Diomede Islands

“The Arctic Mediterranean (roughly represented by the oceanic areas within the yellow curve) and its exchanges with the rest of the World Ocean.” Over the period of monitoring (1990 to present) in the Bering Strait (red), there has been a statistically significant increase in annually averaged volume transport (150% increase).

“The Bering Strait has two channels separated by the Diomede Islands (DI). Red arrows indicate annual mean flow paths. White circles mark mooring positions (A1, A2, A3, A4). Dashed arrow marks the Alaskan Coastal Current (ACC), present seasonally. Grey areas are shallower than 100 m.”

Diomede Islands

Potential Applications

Bering Strait data and analysis were supported by NSF-Office of Polar Programs Arctic Observing Network.

Kim, Hyung-Man. (2018). Electroactive polymers for ocean kinetic energy harvesting: literature review and research needs. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy.s40722-018-0121-2

Østerhus, Svein & Woodgate, Rebecca & Valdimarsson, Héðinn & Turrell, Bill & de Steur, Laura & Quadfasel, Detlef & Olsen, Steffen & Moritz, Martin & Lee, Craig & Larsen, Karin & Jonsson, Steingrimur & Johnson, Clare & Jochumsen, Kerstin & Hansen, Bogi & Curry, Beth & Cunningham, Stuart & Berx, Bee. (2019). Arctic Mediterranean exchanges: A consistent volume budget and trends in transports from two decades of observations. Ocean Science. 15. 379-399. 10.5194/os-15-379-2019.

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Idiosyncrasy BUILDING MATERIALS

Materials Requisitioned from Pacific Trawlers The supplies of the Bering Strait fishing trade are re-purposed in the workshops on the far side of Little Diomede Island. As part of the of the United Naitions mission to meet their sustainable development goals, the regulation of these fisheries and the equipment they use stops damaging trawling practices which over-fish the Bering Sea and damage the seabed. As a result, numerous materials which the boats need to replace become available for the construction of the project.

GANTRY AND MAST

• Used for mounting and elevating flags on the far side of the island, symbolizing the United Nations and protecting ice floes with shade.

LIFERAFTS

• The standalone boats are package with the materials that unfurl into a council seat upon reaching the horseshoe table, becoming the workspace for the delegates.

FREEZER UNITS

• The freezers initially used to store fish from the Bering Sea are used in the workshop. In the months which temperatures rise above 0 they maintain the ice floe micro-climate.

CREW ACCOMMODATIONS

• The bunks, cabinets, and water closets of the existing accommodation are re-purposed onboard the floating ambassador tectonics to host the delegates.

TRAWL NET STRUCTURES

• Netting is repurposed for the large, wind catching flags of the United Nations, while structural elements ensure certain areas maintain constant shade.

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Idiosyncrasy BUILDING MATERIALS - DISGUISING AMERICAN BYPRODUCTS

“Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts”

American Nuclear and Solid Waste Disguised as a Gift

Deriving from an ancient proverb in Virgil’s Aeneid and the original Latin of the poem, “Timeo Danaos et dona ferantes,’ the translation is used in modern times as a warning to exercise skepticism in the face of seemingly generous offerings. This is based on the story of the Greeks tricking the Trojans by building a large horse as a supposed token of surrender to ensure a safe retreat. Of course hidden within the Trojan horse the Greeks best soldiers were able to lay siege to the city of Troy with the element of surprise after being taken within the walls that night.

The U.S. produces thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste every year. The main issue with this is the lack of adequate infrastructure for storing this waste safely, away from population centers. One striking example of this is the San Onofre power plant in California, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and just south of Los Angeles. The Federal Government is responsible for storing the waste, but with proposals in Nevada’s Yucca Mountains on hold, waste is being held at plants with massive costs. Instead of constructing the rail lines to transport the waste inland, the even more remote site of the Diomede Islands are considered - far from civilization and with a direct shipping route from the Pacific Coast generators.

THE GROWING DEMAND FOR WASTE STORAGE

• Most plants in America still store all the spent nuclear

J. B. Greenough, Vergil. Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900, II.49

fuel that they generated, trapped in radioactive pools that decomissioned facilities are struggling to maintain .

SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION

• Closed since 2013, this station is located directly on the coast of the Pacific Ocean next to San Clemente, California and the population centers of Los Angeles and San Diego.

Little Diomede:

New Site for Pacific Waste YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA

• The Federal Government is responsible for disposing of the spent nuclear waste safely. Plans were to bury it under the Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

Canceled NEVADA POLITICIANS VS. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

• However, Nevada politicians hated the idea so the plan has

been stuck in limbo since 1998. Already $19B. has been lost on the tunnelling project at Yucca Mountain.

COOLING + STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE GIFT DISGUISE

• Fuel is usually cooled for multiple years in cement-lined pools of water. Cooler locations make this process easier and would aid in the transition to dry storage.

Jennings, R. (2008, January 8). Taiwan rejects Chinese pandas -- again. Reuters. Retrieved January 12, 2022, from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-panda-idUSTP22484720080108 103

Idiosyncrasy DETAILS REGARDING NUCLEAR WASTE AND HEAT RECOVERY

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Waste Heat Recovery Criteria

Earthquake Risk in American Storage Sites

In wet storage pools of water insulate from radiation while dry storage requires a 300mm container wall-thickness.

(2020, July 15). MIT A+B potential for effective recovery of decay heat from radioactive waste residing.

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Idiosyncrasy NUCLEAR WASTE: CONTAINERS, DIGUISES AND CONFIGURATIONS

Container Configurations - Ice Flow Disguises Balance Risk and Detectability Lower

COMPLEXITY TO MANUFACTURE

Higher

DETECTABILITY Higher

Lower

Disguise Principles

Loading and Storage Process Vignette and Precedent Lid

Floating Insulation

Concrete Drums

Drum Storage Unit

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Idiosyncrasy BUILDING RESOURCES - ALASKA MASS TIMBER

Tree Species, Milling, and Construction

Existing Forestry, Nearby Potential, and Shipping Routes

Existing forestry in Alaska provides ample manufacturing resources for mass timber, particularly of Spruce hardwood growing in the northern regions adjacent to the site. Fairbanks operations benefit from a direct, barge-friendly shipping route along the Yukon River, flowing to the Seward Peninsula with direct access to the building site.

Alaska Division of Forestry, 2006. Alaska’s Forests in the 21st Century, New Growth Prospectus for Forest Products Industry of Interior Alaska

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FAIRBANKS AK, MANUFACTURERS PROVIDE AMERICAN WOOD PRODUCTS

Paper Birch (up to 40m)

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Peterson, Birgit & Nelson, Kurtis. (2014). Mapping forest height in Alaska using GLAS, landsat composites, and airborne LiDAR. Remote Sensing.

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LUMBER + PREFABRICATED ACCOMMODATION FLOORS SHIPPING FROM MAINLAND

Idiosyncrasy SHIPMENTS FROM MAINLAND ALASKA - FORMATIONS AND SYMBOLISM

Log Raft Techniques

United States Navy - Ship Formations

The Eyes of Frank T.J. Mackey Keep Watch (Great Gatsby) “But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose.”

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940. The Great Gatsby. New York :C. Scribner’s sons, 1925 (p.23).

Reference to Nature Taking cues from the natural flight formations of birds arriving at the site along their migratory paths.

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Idiosyncrasy SITE SERVICES STRATEGY - SEA ICE FOR FRESH WATER AND ENERGY STORAGE

Desalination through Freezing, Collection from Ice Floes

Storing Energy on the Mantle, Thaw Reservoirs

Gravity Fed Water Access and Plumbing, Insulation

“As ice ages, the brine eventually drains through the ice, and by the time it becomes multiyear ice, nearly all of the brine is gone. Most multiyear ice is fresh enough that someone could drink its melted water and it often supplies the fresh water needed for polar expeditions.”

“Pumped hydro requires the right terrain but then allows enormous storage potential.”

Stored reservoirs of fresh ice and snow simultaneously allow for mass insulation in the winter and fresh water, plumbing services, and energy generation during the spring and summer when delegates arrive.

https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/seaice/index.html

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https://www.windpowerengineering.com/pumped-hydro-storage-market-to-surpass-350billion-by-2024/

https://www.pidgeondigital.com/talks/conserving-energy-in-building/chapters/

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Idiosyncrasy NESTING SPECIES, SEASONAL CHANGES AND MICROCLIMATE VARIATION

Nest-Insulated Microclimate and Winter Wind Break Sleeve

Photo: Peter Prokosch, © WWF Canon

Long-distance migratory birds face elevated climate change risk

Birds traveling to the site in the spring and summer months insulate the mesh skin surrounding the accommodation walkways, freeing them from ice and maintaining a comfortable temperature for daily activities.

Long-distance migratory birds, already in decline in Europe and North America, are removed from food sources at other parts of their migratory path and cannot predict changes there. Some species are therefore unable to advance their arrival date in spring breeding grounds sufficiently to track availability of their prey, i.e. insects, which may peak earlier due to climatic warming. This exposes long-distance migratory birds to a greater climate change threat than resident birds. In the Netherlands, this mismatch has led to declines of up to 90 per cent in some populations of pied flycatchers over the past two decades. These long-distance migratory birds are nesting more quickly after their spring arrival in Europe. However, because their arrival dates are relatively unchanged, they are unable to nest and breed sufficiently quickly to match nestlings’ food demands with peak insect supplies, which now occur earlier. viii

In the winter, when the buildings enter “hibernation,” steam issuing from the washing and kitchen facilities freezes onto the mesh - solidifying it and allowing it to act as a wind brace against the harsher weather.

Puffins along with Seagulls and Auklets nest on the craggy surfaces of the Diomedes. The ice floe mesh will compensate for any nesting area lost to development and provide insulated micro-climates, freezing over in the winter to protect from wind,

Dependent on prey scavenged from sea ice, ivory gulls have already declined 90% over the past two decades in Canada, and face an uncertain future in the warming Arctic

Bird species and climate change. https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/wwfsummaryfinal.pdf.

Photo: Kevin Schafer, © WWF Canon

Birds Species Nesting on the Diomedes

Diomede Islands colonies. Audubon. (2018, May 10). Retrieved November 15, 2021, from https://www.audubon.org/importantbird-areas/diomede-islands-colonies.

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Climate change could make Canada’s largest puffin breeding colony unsuitable for the tufted puffin.

INHABITABLE COLUMN ACCOMMODATION

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WATER BATTERY

BIRD’S NEST SLEEVE

INSULATION DETAIL

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WALKWAYS TO LAND

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ACTIVITIES - WALL STRUCTURE INSULATION MATERIALS

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NS COLUMN SECTION

DRAWBRIDGE MECHANISM FOR REACHING BUILDING CORE

EW COLUMN SECTION

DRAWBRIDGE REFERENCE HEATHERWICK STUDIO

Idiosyncrasy ADDITIONAL HEATING FOR THE AMERICAN BASE

Geothermal Piles, Heat Recovery Process

Geothermal Potential in the Bering Strait - Columns Independent from Nuclear Waste Heat

“Geothermal piles consist of pile foundations combined with closed-loop ground source heat pump systems. Their purpose is to provide support to the building, as well as acting as a heat source and a heat sink. In effect, the thermal mass of the ground enables the building to store unwanted heat from cooling systems and allows heat pumps to warm the building in winter” 2018. Energy piles: site investigation and analysis. ICE Themes Geothermal Energy, Heat Exchange Systems and Energy Piles,.

Heat exchanged by many loops of plastic pipe down length of piles.

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PROXIMITY TO PACIFIC PLATE BORDER INDICATES STRONG GEOTHERMAL ACTIVITY IN BERING STRAIT REGION.

SITE IS ADJACENT TO SEWARD PENINSULA WHICH HAS MULTIPLE 300+ DEGREE WELL POTENTIALS. Batir, Joe & Blackwell, David & Richards, Maria. (2016). Heat flow and temperature-depth curves throughout Alaska: Finding regions for future geothermal exploration. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering.

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COLUMN CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE

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STRUCTURAL STRATEGY

APPROACH 1. TREE-TRUNK COLUMNS APPROACH 2. INHABITABLE COLUMNS

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Idiosyncrasy REFERENCE FOR ROTATING AND MOVING ELEMENTS

Building Movement Method - Railway Foundations

Pivot Mechanism - Integrated Circular Rails

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940. The Great Gatsby. New York :C. Scribner’s sons, 1925 (p.23).

Central Union Telephone Company building being rotated on a set of rails on November 12, 1930. (11,000-Ton Bell Telephone. Firm; Building Completes “Journey””. The Indianapolis News.

November 13, 1930. p. 25. Retrieved April 1, 2021.)

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WORKSHOP NESTING COMPONENTS - SEQUENCE

CENTRAL SPINE ALONG FRAMED ROOF PEAK

BOATHOUSE DISGUISE FOLDING SEQUENCE

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WORKSHOP PIVOT DIAGRAM

Through lens of the tumultuous, ever-changing weather of the Diomede Islands, the perceptions of good and evil, right and wrong become clouded.

Even seemingly well intentioned actions can be understood to have hidden agendas and alternate consequences when viewed through the distortions of chance.

Under such circumstances the best policy may be to keep one’s enemies as close as possible.