Chapter 4. The Projected Future.
There's this dear friend of mine, Dan. He's a brilliant architect and about a week ago, we were at his apartment and he remembered he had this job to finish, so he had to work from home that evening. During the course of the evening, I watched him work and as an instinctively curious person, I asked about some drawings that looked unfamiliar to me. These lines were unfamiliar because they were going directly into what looked to be the ground. I was as puzzled as you are right now when I asked why his building was extending into the ground, and that was when he made me understand that the building wasn't entering the ground, but as a matter of truth, the building actually extended from inside the very soil. Readers in the engineering field are relatively familiar with this concept, but for the readers who, like me, are not close to vast in this field, this is called The Foundation . To put this in context, this foundation is the first piece of brick laid that the house or ...