slowness
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2005-06-15
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Virginia Tech
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lavare lente | a place for slow washing | alexandria, virginia
the proposal is for a slow laundering facility for alexandria, virginia. the building is intended to be slow and deliberate in its construction and inhabitation. without conventional machines, the architecture and the individual must take on increased roles in the process of washing. ideas about how slowness relates to memory, drawing and construction, and about how we might ground ourselves in a manageably paced lifestyle are at the root of the thesis.
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slowness, slow food, drawing, Memory, slow cities, line drying, 200 Commerce Street, slow architecture, ideogram, soak wash rinse, a place for slow washing, festina lente, ice house, bricks, slow construction, indirectness, joyful exchange, header wall, bronze forms, slip cast