Narrative #1-Rex

Mobridge works as...

...a bridging (threshold or liminal) community where Sitting Bull and the Native American culture of the Lakota Sioux were met by "Hiawatha", the name of the luxurious passenger line (named after the heroine of a Longfellow poem) that at first terminated the Milwaukee Road at Wrigley Square but eventually became the mid-point of a grand rail line that ran from Chicago across the continent through Yellowstone and on to Tacoma.  Presidents who traveled by transcontinental rail preferred the comfort of the rail cars built in Milwaukee and maintained in Mobridge on the Hiawatha.  We have references to Taft, Coolidge, and Truman stopping and speaking in Mobridge.  We have references that this has long been a traditional crossing point in the Missouri.  US12 is called Grand Crossing Highway.  It iwas also a major junction on the Yellowstone Trail.  Mobridge's geographical location is important in culture and history.  Time based conditions.  Activity Things.  Durations.  Vectors into Surfaces

...a connected (holistic or placed) community of 3,500 diverse citizens living engaged with their environment at the bridged, engineered, well-fished, and wonderfully recreative waterscape of Lake Oahe and the Upper Missouri River Basin slices through vast prairies of farming enterprises and ranch land shared by wild fauna that thrive on the open rollingspace of grassland plains.  Mobridge's connection to the natural and agricultural landscape is important in recreation, ecology, and economy. Object based conditions.  Materiality Things.   Extensions.  Surfaces into Vectors.

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This begins to serve a narrative for the project.  Can built form embody any of these narrative conditions?  To what extent?  Can it advocate for something?  Can it provide a platform for things to be done and things to stand?  Is that important in a community?

Charge:

Above everything else we have to do in the project:  How do we make the place work as something rather than just symbolize and image other places and times?

We want to make it work like something rather than look like something.

The project can't look like a bridge. It needs to bridge.

The project can't look like a connection.  It needs to connect.

How do the users we've been developing change with the new findings of the last visit to Mobridge?  Who are now the cast of characters to consider as "users" or "inhabitants" of the place in the narrative?  Are the inhabitants, occupants, the users, the tourists, the visitors, the revelers, the workers the embodied sens elf character in your project?

Write out a cast of characters.  

Describe them in detail.  Edit, iterate, try the next step, retreat to this point.  Mull.

Describe the program.  Map their relations in detail or diagram.

Starting from a reading of the narrative above write out your own narrative of the project and Mobridge.

What are the characters of your project.

One thing we know now...The project is called, "The End of the Line".