Addendum: SPACE/TIME
	The Chapel profanes the Fort; The Fort sanctifies the Chapel.

Spatial Aspects of Time

Time modifies space, or at least space as we know it, for as our ideas evolve, so too are the lenses with which we measure and give meanings to the spaces we inhabit and imagine. Once-clear boundaries become blurred; path becomes destination; Cartesian linearity turns upon itself. The Chapel is emptied of sanctity, if it ever possessed it in the first place; its visual symmetry; its enclosure and directionality are but anamorphic fictions belying a tortured, ruinous dance with war that spans the depth and breadth of history.

Given the tendency towards purity of form and theoretical aspirations contained within the thesis, the choice of a chapel as program was perhaps too burdened by its own questions; therefore it tended to co-opt the trajectory of the thesis to its own ends. A more abstract program, such as a "vessel", as described in Chapters 3 & 4, would have served better as an armature upon which to arrange space and form.

© 2012 Philip S. Wheelock, Jr. AIA