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* Bedrock squares in basement -> placement of seismograph (correct this please:-) ) | * Bedrock squares in basement -> placement of seismograph (correct this please:-) ) | ||
| + | [[File:Bedrock connector.JPG|thumb|500px|Connection to bedrock, sub-basement]] | ||
| + | [[File:Bedrock-square.JPG|thumb|500px|Connection to bedrock, sub-basement]] | ||
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* Slits in domes with rolling shutters -> where telescopes were looking through roof | * Slits in domes with rolling shutters -> where telescopes were looking through roof | ||
| − | * Circle of new floorboards in pantry. -> Former place for supporting | + | [[File:Dome.JPG|thumb|500px|Former telescope shutter]] |
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| + | * Circle of new floorboards in pantry. -> Former place for supporting colomn for dome, which also pierced through the current library on 1st floor. | ||
| + | [[File:Pantryfloor.JPG|thumb|500px|New floorboards]] | ||
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* Vegetation and animals -> new life in the cracks of old buildings | * Vegetation and animals -> new life in the cracks of old buildings | ||
| + | [[File:PWFU3340.JPG|thumb|500px|Slugg and cavity on east facade]] | ||
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| + | [[Category:Traces]] | ||
Latest revision as of 07:00, 15 April 2022
Contexts have changed since its construction; geopolitical, societal, ... It's functioning is changing. This results in many matters being absent from the building: past lives, practices, objects, instruments. But traces of them can be found. Holes, lay-outs, stories, scratches. A listing of traces and what they refer to.
- Bedrock squares in basement -> placement of seismograph (correct this please:-) )
- Slits in domes with rolling shutters -> where telescopes were looking through roof
- Circle of new floorboards in pantry. -> Former place for supporting colomn for dome, which also pierced through the current library on 1st floor.
- Vegetation and animals -> new life in the cracks of old buildings
