• Foundations rest on rock

• but everything floats, deep down the core is liquid

• circulations that go nowhere support rocks and foundations

• foundations too deep would melt

• without gravity we don't need foundations but everywhere we need connections and flows

• you never know when the next big one will come along

• if we made them deep enough foundations could rest on each other

• shared foundations become one system sharing circulations

• in shaky soil foundations can float, like dugout canoes, flexibility keeps the buldings afloat

• the building does not rest, on its foundation; it sways and strains

The metaphor persists, we want foundations.

Is it a metaphor?

Index
dangerous metaphors

(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001