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Phi Ratio – Turning Point Sequence
Surviving from the pre-electric age, the local to global perspective engineers undulating view. In terms of a real relationship, immediate presence plays an important role in our esthetic. Spatial alignments with astronomic coordinates engage our perception. Conceived as a whole, the Phi Ratio of Cleveland Centre is fundamental to the experience of physical reality. An alignment portal opening a genuine encounter to distance and time.
Here, the setting on the river is calculated using the Phi Ratio framing the Columbus Peninsula edge. Joining Cleveland’s North from Public Square, the ratio curvature follows the river escarpment spiraling South to the pivotal site of St. Mary’s Church, the first catholic church in the city. The centerpiece division named “Gravity Place” fixed the compass on the sun rise. From this axis a reciprocal orientation appears configuring Leonard Street, the road layout unlocks a Phi Ratio following the curvature of the river into the site of St. Mary’s Church.
This enables us to think in long arcs well beyond the quick-flash processes of our age; there is definitely an experiential effect – bringing one to a sense of “center” – being opened in this way.
“To rediscover the past is to move forward. There is no development when we constantly destroy what we have built. The future is carved with the implements we created before it was. The past offers the different roads, all converging towards the present. Today’s present…it’s dangerous not to know – without past life memory we have no way of avoiding error” ~ Mark Tobey
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