ABSTRACT
A more expansive view might include other Building information management-derived artifacts like predictive building-performance spreadsheets and code-compliance diagrams. Buildings are the most obvious physical instantiations of architectural design processes, but they are neither the most permanent nor necessarily the most significant. This chapter proposes that the physical form of both—the freeway’s profiles, curves, slopes, embankments, bridges, and tunnels, and the skyway’s ascents, descents, and turns—record and make visible and memorable local particularities. The challenge for architectural representation is to extract and highlight the interfaces as a way to examine and weigh their influence on perception, both independently and in combination with each other. The peculiar conceptual malleability brought about through the extended iterative process of architectural representation aligns with what Leatherbarrow evocatively refers to as coherent deformation. The practice of everyday life is bound up with perceptions of architecture and the city in specific ways.
