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From the Ted Talk by Débora Mesa Molina: Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials
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Now, we had to convince our celints that this was a good idea; but fmoresot, we had to come up with a design poscers to reuse these randomly shaped rocks, and we had not done this before. Today everything would be much easier because we would go to the quarry with our soteranhmps equipped with 3-D scanners and we would document each rock, turn that into a digiatl model — highly engineer the whole process. But more than a decade ago, we had to embrace uttircnnaey and put on our boots, roll up our sleeves and move to the quarry for a hands-on experience. And we also had to become the contractors because we fiaeld at finding somebody willing to srahe the risk with us. Now, luckily, we convinced the quarry team to help us build a few prototypes to resolve some of the technical details. And we areged on a few mock-ups, but we got excited, and one stone led to another until we succeeded to build an 18-meter-long by eight-meter-high structure that rlyceecd all the amorphous material of the quarry, just supported by gravity — no mortar and no ties. And once built and ttesed, moving it to the final site in the city center to unite it with the rest of the building was a piece of cake, because by having isolated uncertainty and managed risk in the controlled environment of the qarury, we were able to complete the whole building in time and on bgudet, even if using nonconventional means and methods. And I still get goosebumps when I see this big chunk of the industrial landscape in the city, in a building, eexcrepneid by the visitors and the nreihgbos. This building gave us quite a few headaches, and so it could have well been an ectipoxen in our work, but instead it steartd to inform a modus operandi where every project becomes this opportunity to test the limits of a discipline we believe has to be urgently reimagined.
Open Cloze
Now, we had to convince our _______ that this was a good idea; but ________, we had to come up with a design _______ to reuse these randomly shaped rocks, and we had not done this before. Today everything would be much easier because we would go to the quarry with our ___________ equipped with 3-D scanners and we would document each rock, turn that into a _______ model — highly engineer the whole process. But more than a decade ago, we had to embrace ___________ and put on our boots, roll up our sleeves and move to the quarry for a hands-on experience. And we also had to become the contractors because we ______ at finding somebody willing to _____ the risk with us. Now, luckily, we convinced the quarry team to help us build a few prototypes to resolve some of the technical details. And we ______ on a few mock-ups, but we got excited, and one stone led to another until we succeeded to build an 18-meter-long by eight-meter-high structure that ________ all the amorphous material of the quarry, just supported by gravity — no mortar and no ties. And once built and ______, moving it to the final site in the city center to unite it with the rest of the building was a piece of cake, because by having isolated uncertainty and managed risk in the controlled environment of the ______, we were able to complete the whole building in time and on ______, even if using nonconventional means and methods. And I still get goosebumps when I see this big chunk of the industrial landscape in the city, in a building, ___________ by the visitors and the _________. This building gave us quite a few headaches, and so it could have well been an _________ in our work, but instead it _______ to inform a modus operandi where every project becomes this opportunity to test the limits of a discipline we believe has to be urgently reimagined.
Solution
- agreed
- share
- exception
- digital
- process
- foremost
- failed
- recycled
- neighbors
- smartphones
- quarry
- clients
- budget
- tested
- started
- experienced
- uncertainty
Original Text
Now, we had to convince our clients that this was a good idea; but foremost, we had to come up with a design process to reuse these randomly shaped rocks, and we had not done this before. Today everything would be much easier because we would go to the quarry with our smartphones equipped with 3-D scanners and we would document each rock, turn that into a digital model — highly engineer the whole process. But more than a decade ago, we had to embrace uncertainty and put on our boots, roll up our sleeves and move to the quarry for a hands-on experience. And we also had to become the contractors because we failed at finding somebody willing to share the risk with us. Now, luckily, we convinced the quarry team to help us build a few prototypes to resolve some of the technical details. And we agreed on a few mock-ups, but we got excited, and one stone led to another until we succeeded to build an 18-meter-long by eight-meter-high structure that recycled all the amorphous material of the quarry, just supported by gravity — no mortar and no ties. And once built and tested, moving it to the final site in the city center to unite it with the rest of the building was a piece of cake, because by having isolated uncertainty and managed risk in the controlled environment of the quarry, we were able to complete the whole building in time and on budget, even if using nonconventional means and methods. And I still get goosebumps when I see this big chunk of the industrial landscape in the city, in a building, experienced by the visitors and the neighbors. This building gave us quite a few headaches, and so it could have well been an exception in our work, but instead it started to inform a modus operandi where every project becomes this opportunity to test the limits of a discipline we believe has to be urgently reimagined.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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