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Florence Nightingale
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
禁欲主义是狂热分子漠视他的权利, 是幼稚与平庸者卖弄他的自私与空虚…
This is a thought-provoking quote, not only because the abstruseness of the sentence itself, but also it give a chance to people define the meaning of Asceticism in different ways, different opinions which much depends on the individual’s life experiences. For Nightingale, Asceticism, she has her own experience and annotation on it. She was born in an upper class family, but she abandoned the fortune, viscounty…and became a volunteer to heal the wounded and rescue the dying. She struggled in her self-definition several times in the different period when she facing to the serious choice of the life. Asceticism is struggling, confused, It is a kind of process change lifeway or ideal from one to another. Some of Architectural language could be introduced into the space, such as contrast (light, colour texture, space etc ),ambiguous space division (the spaces could read as separated or the whole, the integrated one/interlocking spaces) to give a sense of confusing feeling, a long and narrow hallway represent the different life’s journey, and narrow space – people could actually touch the texture, feel the space, meditating…etc…

Stephen Hawking
"God not only plays dice.He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen"
The statement was made when Stephen Hawing was doing his research on Black Holes...The sentence is refuting Einstein’s"God does not play dice with the universe."

Architectural Language: Positive and Negative space represent existence and inexistence, universe and black hole,” using light to define the space (Stephen believe that universe had no boundary in space-time), how to define the space, where is the boundary of the space become interesting. Stephen also indicated that “the “black hole” is not actually black”, it could lose its energy by radiation). If central space (lab) represents his worthful contribution of Black hole, the space doesn’t have to be Black...