Half-turns ... to orbit

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	"If you can get your ship into orbit, you're halfway to anywhere."

See: Where did Heinlein say "Once you get to Earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the Solar System"?

Single, dual aspect in architecture. What of care?

'The challenge of overheating in Britain is our buildings are built to retain heat in our temperate climate. Energy efficiency regulations for new dwellings now require high insulation and few drafts to reduce the need for heating in winter, but broadly make it harder to cool homes in summer. Residents of cities are particularly vulnerable to overheating due to urban heat island effects.

There are two ways buildings can be cooled – mechanical methods (primarily air conditioning) and passive cooling methods that use the design of the building to limit heat gain and retain cooler air inside the dwelling.

Passive cooling is much easier in dual-aspect dwellings with windows on multiple external facades, which as shown in Figure 1, are contrasted to single-aspect flats that face out on to only one external facade. Dual aspect allows breezes to blow through dwellings and easily exchange stuffy indoors air for cooler air from the outdoors. Even if outside temperatures are high, cross-ventilation or overnight air exchange and limits to solar gain (daylight indoors) can keep indoor environments cooler than the outdoors.'

https://www.centreforcities.org/reader/breaking-the-bottlenecks/overheating-and-dual-aspect/

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	Single and dual aspect flats

In Hodges' model at least, we seem to have dual aspect covered. 

That's why we say the model is situated.

Image source: https://www.centreforcities.org/reader/breaking-the-bottlenecks/overheating-and-dual-aspect/

My source:  Plimmer, G., Pickard, J., Steinberg, J., London planning rules face tweak in bid to build more homes. FTWeekend. 18/19 October 2025, p.2.

Previously on W2tQ: 'architecture' : 'situated' : 'housing'

Nothing new under the Sun . . .

"The quadrangle is the token of a new humanity. The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians". 

Theo van Doesburg

Tate Liverpool visit 13th June 2008.

Book: "The Things That Really Matter"

Philosophical conversations on the cornerstones of life

[ open access ]

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"The Things That Really Matter"

Source: Literature search - inc. Dewey, reflect.

More corners - and yes - all can be 'found' here.

https://twitter.com/imathematicians/status/1530724466073952261?s=20&t=eF1XRD9HbkSJ2XWWbIk2qQ

Pick your corner carefully ...

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Of all the corners you can pick* take care ...
	... some are even more 'political' and expressive of power, individually and collectively, than when exercised right here.

 

Ack. Source:

(1/) In hospital today, whilst in a lot of pain I spelled my name 3 times for a receptionist who kept sighing; eventually rolling her eyes she said loudly "You're confusing me with that name. Come explain it properly in that corner!" So many issues with what happened here...

— Adiba Sultan (@AdibaSultan) [No longer available.]

 

*I remember at school 1970s - our drama teacher highlighting the people who have social awareness and those who do not. 'Social awareness' covers a wide range of attitudes, behaviour, manners,  literacies, intelligences ... and with ongoing unrest, campaigning, activism, legislation, policy and human rights we  have made progress. A counterpoint and sadness in the 21st C. is that - as ever - there remains much to do: many people [still] can not exercise a choice in terms of the corners they would like to reach.

Speaker's corner

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canto do orador Le coin de l'auditeur, Rincón del oyente الزاوية المستمع 听者的角落, Canto do ouvinte, Listener's corner	音箱的边角 Le coin des haut-parleurs
الزاوية المتكلم esquina del orador	Speaker's corner

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Image source: http://rebbls.dk/rebblog/speakers-corner/

Foundations, projects, corners and cornerstones

Ok, so you have a new project - that's great!

Yes, we are going to build something - outstanding!

Sounds marvellous!

We are going to use up-to-the-nanosecond project management tools.

And you're going to do it by the book, charts and real-time tags.

Yes, with a dash of intuition plus - you know - gut instinct!

Well sure, pleased to hear that too.

We will take account of history, learn the lessons -
we've a researcher onboard you know?
Building a world-class team that's all fleet of foot and mind.

We'll tick all the boxes, check all the corners and leave no stone un-turned.

Truly admirable, but how many boxes and corners have you got and how many cornerstones* will you need?

Eh?

Hey listen up. Corners are for losers,

naughty children

and people lost in the dark.

Nobody is going to be stuck standing in the corner on this one!

Oh - right.

Well good luck....

Image sources:
'Cornerstone office': Cornerstone Corp. Center
Dan Flavin: at Artnet.

Inspired by the word 'cornerstone' and Untitled (Corner Piece) 1969 on visit to Tate Liverpool, 25 September 2009 (not the piece illustrated above):

Flavin made a number of works intended to be shown in corners, engaging directly with the architecture of the gallery. His use of commonly available fluorescent tubes enabled him to explore light as a non-physical material, animating gallery walls. The size of the work was determined so that the units could be fastened in the centre only, without having to be anchored to the floor. The artist rejected any symbolic significance of the object, insisting that it was simply a form that made good use of a corner.

Question: How many corners are there in Hodges' model?

*Cornerstones: here referring to stakeholders, sponsors, owners, partners, investors, builders, architects, designers...?