At long last, the main building is edging toward completion. The Loggia had long been the unfinished piece: last to get a roof and last to get a slab. But now that work is done, and it is gorgeous:
Here’s another perspective:
Month: May 2010
Week 124 (Loggia Slab, Part 1)
The concrete truck made its first of two visits to pour the Loggia slab. Here we can see the unfinished concrete waiting to be worked:
And the finished result:
Week 123 (The QR)
While progress continues all around the site, one topic that’s been getting a huge amount of attention lately has been the wiring plan and the audio eQuipment Room (which we call the QR). Here is an overview (literally) of the QR:
Here’s what it looks like down on earth:
Week 122 (Loggia Slab Prep)
The Loggia is getting close to being another finished part of the construction project. Here we see the rebar and steel screens laid on top of foam that will insulate our slab from the geothermal sink known to most as Earth:
Here’s a detail of a corner of what will become the slab. Note that the slab is reinforced in 3 dimensions, as it should be:
New Blog Host: WordPress.com
I have moved my blog over to WordPress.com. It’s not that I didn’t like the previous hosting service, but they sent me a note saying they’d no longer be responsible for providing free WordPress.org hosting, and I could not be bothered to fight with them about that.
The transition has not been perfect. I started off doing something incredibly bone-headed, which made it impossible for me to export my blog. I then fixed that, but then other problems made the imports not work as expected (or not work at all). The WordPress.com support team were responsive, and after several iterations, they were able to import my 199 posts and have all my images hosted on their site. That’s the good news. The bad news is that all of my photos have been renamed slightly, which means that any references out there on the web are likely to wind up with Error 404, until they can be fixed to point to the right places.
That is indeed a bummer. But I that’s about as good as it’s going to get, I’m afraid.
I will miss the direct SQL access I had from my own hosting service, but I would miss even more not being able to post any new blog entries.
Week 121 (Annex Floor)
The concrete Annex floor was poured, tooled, and sealed this week. The results speak for themselves:
This finished surface will forever reflect the underlying logic of the design. The look is richly organic:
Manifold Recording / The Miraverse 
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