Email #56 - Pajama Party Moves Downstairs During the Christmas break, the Pajama Party moved downstairs from the faculty offices to the computer rooms. I like pajama parties because this is the first true moment of "walls." It happens right after they stuff fiberglass insulation between the steel studs of the wall framing, but before the drywall is installed. Although the walls are puffy, the true form of the new space becomes apparent for the first time. Here are two photos of the new Archnet Input/Output Computer Center buried deep and windowless in the bottom of the building. The colors were all over the map, so I took the photos back to black & white, except for the blue "Johns Manville" logos on the fiberglass bags. The back sides of these bags are solid grey-brown, as can be seen at left edge of the left photo. Either way the walls are soft when born, but they will soon harden up. In the horizontal photo we see the new steam pipe going westward into the Server Room. To the left will be Sinchai's new office (w. double door frame). In the vertical photo the view is looking east into the new Server Room with the steam pipe directly above. Actually this is a very small room and I was lucky to get a good picture of it. Photographing the "space" of a small room is virtually impossible, unless you can stand outside it. Here I could do that because the workers had left one panel on the west wall unstuffed for easier egress while working. Indeed there was a need to walk thru walls as long as possible. That made this photo possible. This same temporary opening creates the backlighting on the floor of the Server Room in the horizontal photo. John Stamets |