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I would like to make the building be less office park-y. It does read as a destination of some major employer and that is not the case, so I will work on the siting. The other issue to look at is program; the requirements for a 40-person staff is pretty small, so I think opening the building to a defined yet loose use from other groups will be key. I will look more at the way SubText currently runs to be able to further define the strategy of the building.

DD Review and Comments

Comments:

.What are the qualities of prefab which the building could utilize?

.The program may be too large for the user. Can the building also hold rentable meeting space or space for other users?

.The siting is awkward. Its location makes it seem like a destination or a major player in the Columbus market. Is it intended to be the Google of Columbus? Its location is also a little office park-y.

.The ultimate adaptable building for the use may be an open box with a grid structure that users can just show up and plug in. The ideas of adaptability and change need to be married with the ideas of a very specific user group and use.

.What is the relationship between the adjacent Center of Science and Industry and the building?

.What kind of exhibits would be shown in the public spaces?

.Maybe the thesis idea is too large, and could be better tested in the smaller scale, such as a work unit or the relationship of a few work units together.

.Make very clear the distinction between PREFAB and MODULAR; they are not interchangeable. Something which is highly customized could (would) be prefabricated.

SD Review and Comments

Comments:

.Is a building necessary? Is the best solution a building?

.Technology is both good and bad. The world would be different if there were 10 Googles as opposed to 1 Google as there is now.

.Look at Natalie Jeremijenko, who's art is about change and adaptation.

.Look at Anna Dyson's work.