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I absolutely love the spot in Iqualada cemetery where it has a brief moment of openness. When I first looked at it, it was obvious that it was a transition zone, but of what I didn't know.

(Thanks, Panaramio)

PreLuis:
Things like this were happening:

Ok, interesting to some extent. But I hadn't really looked enough at the plan to know much, if anything, about why the space felt the way it did. So, we went on a field trip to the library, and we talked about the plan and the section. Concrete things that actually matter. Luis said something interesting: we are only mapping what is already there, not creating something new. It just won't be as good.

PostLuis:

In the library, books showed that the transition zone was denser with trees. Why did the trees get denser? What were they separating? The public from the private. So, my reversible, etc. map will be a map of the tree cluster that makes a clear division between two halves of the cemetery.

Map two, the drawn map, will examine in a perspectagonal section the openness of the transition zone due to a changed sloped of the graves versus the closed, darker parts of the walk.

I was pretty adamant about not getting stuck in plan due to past studio professors who tried to steer me away from that. However, the only way to know what is happening is to look at what is already there. I am not creating something new out of what is already a metaphorically and physically rich environment. I am just trying to figure out what it means.
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