Revolution Mills: we have a problem.

As my fellow group members have already discussed (on their blogs) to some extent our conversation we had earlier today, I don't feel the need (but will do so anyway) to elaborate further other than to reiterate that the inspiration wall, while beautiful, doesn't really have anything to do with the mill. Aside from the envelope of the building, the remaining structure and Buffalo creek, nothing there was in anyway what we would consider to be an official artifact of the original cotton mill. The situation certainly poses a critical question:

Do we take inspiration from the character that the building exists in today or do we take it from the sources available to us via old photographs, drawings, history books and a delorean with time travel capabilities complete with flux capacitor?

It would be awesome to go back in time (I'd be weary of the future...) and investigate this place when it was in full production mode. Talk about some amazing photography content. Anyway, we have opted for looking elsewhere for inspiration and mean no offense. It should be noted that we are trying to be critical of our design process and I am glad that my group had this pow-wow.

Apparently someone recommended a designer/architect to Jami. I can't remember his name but needless to say it was the kind of inspiration we needed. I'll get back to that later. For now I leave you with some inspirational pictures of looms and trains. Why looms and trains? Seeing how the railroads played an integral part (no pun intended, you'll see) in transporting cotton to the mill and the finished product to consumer centers across America it seemed fitting to include them. Not to mention, if you look at the pictures/drawings, the parts of the looms and steam locomotives seem to have an odd similarity...




Interesting....huh?