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Hillside Forum

Hillside Forum

This study loosely invokes the sacred precinct of Delphi, with the Temple of Apollo and its oracular sanctum, the Theatre set into the hill with distant views, and the Tholos with geodesic dome connoting science/research, its frieze of patrons and vintners mixing at balcony level, all elements in service of the coinage Hillside Forum, itself in service of the prime Coináge: Vineyard Agora.

…Coináge is scalable, these test Vineyard Agoras are not particular in size and can be scaled for economy and function, this scaling of idea a prime strategy of smallchitecture…