I’ve been investigating spectra, here in an architectural sense. Any dilemma (in the older sense of the word) is a decision between just two options, yet what I’ve been hinting at from the start is that the area in between is more… justified or relevant or realistic or… (I need to find the correct wording for this soon). I wrote down a list of twin phenomena and selected those that worked best for both ethics and architecture: the five above. For each I attempted to produce five forms, types or configurations, based on a simple box, to span between the two end points.

It was an interesting exercise, though it is too close to form-making for my liking. There are similarities between some of the types on different scales, sometimes at different points, and then I found there were different methods of visually describing for the different scales; for instance the materiality important to Temporary-Permanent contrasts with the more formal, spatial variations along Open-Closed. The relevance to my scheme might well be in some aspect of form-making, but the most lucid interpretation concerns the recognition of forms and arrangements as being not one thing nor the other.