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Boundaries reflect physical and perceptual
                                                                                                      patterns of distinguishing between things such as
                                                                                                      a 'here and there' and a 'them and us.' But the
                                                                                                      endurance of boundaries has much to do with
                                                                                                      ranking and relegating. We saw that blurring the
                                                                                                      boundaries like what happened in modernist
                                                                                                      architecture was not a right resolve in architecture.
                                                                                                      We have the character of outside and the
                                                                                                      character of the inside in architecture. The efforts
                                                                                                      to eliminate this boundary has the risk of destroying
                                                                                                      both characters. But what if a third space come
                                                                                                      in? A world in which one finds a draft- but more
                                                                                                      proximate -version of the other world. Would it be
                                                                                                      a space to prepare here to see there!? Would this
                                                                                                      border of transition be an ambiguous place for
                                                                                                      one to stay? A realm of impermanence for whom
                                                                                                      trained to contemplate and reflect?
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