the trail house

I was reading the description from the architects of the trail house - thank you eric for the beautiful link! the path leads you to the house, which creates an inversion of the path before leading you back to path on which you began

This post is interesting because the built place is being defined by the elements of the natural path that it sits on - the path is laying the plan. The paths turn the plan into a landscape - shaping the plan with the natural fork and meander of the path. Just as the path shapes the house, the in-between spaces of the city lay the plan for the public realm, while the people create the place. Thus, we respond to the plan of the city both physically and programatically.

We can observe the physical space of the city as we can observe the behaviors of its citizens. This is what I saw while sitting in the square at Morris Street and Barrington Street at 7:00 pm on a Tuesday evening,
people eat.
people talk.
people cry.
people walk alone,
people walk in groups
and
people walk hand in hand.
people are both friends and strangers,
people are lovers and they are family.
people ride bikes,
people skateboard,
people walk and they run.
people are in a hurry –
people have no where to go.
people live here.
people work here.
people walk straight
people cut the corner
people wait for the bus
people wait for a friend
people use the telephone
and
people like to watch people.