Yesterday the CDS RA approved the proposal initiated by Rosie Gray and myself to build a new Schloss for the CDS. We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to create a wonderful addition to the CDS landscape.
The first public step of the approved proposal is for Rosie and myself to present to the community a quantity of material which inspires and motivates the process by which we turn ideas into "concrete" buildings. We hope that you'll look at the pictures presented here, as well as the text discussion from 2009, and offer ideas and opinions. All feedback is profoundly welcome. We strongly urge you to provide such feedback in the forums. If for any reason you can't, please give one of us a notecard with your thoughts, and we'll post it with your name in the forum.
The build will be created offsite so as not to burden our already overburdened sims with more prims. When there is something to see, we'll provide the landmark, so you can visit and offer further thoughts. As noted in the proposal, we will create the major external part of the build off-site, but in order to truly complete a building which relates organically to its surroundings, we'll need to put the build in its intended place. Before we remove the existing Schloss in order to do this, we will again request the approval of the Chancellor and the RA. As noted in the meeting yesterday, Rosie and I will leave it to the Chancellor and the RA to sort out the mechanism of that official approval.
We also strongly support the proposal which Calli made at the meeting to document the existing Schloss through pictures and videos, before it is removed. I'll be happy to act as a repository of all such material, and also happy to assemble it in some nice and appreciative fashion. Pictures, videos, and text would be welcome from anyone wishing to contribute... please send them if at all possible to my email, [email protected]. If you'd like to contribute, please don't procrastinate!
So... a review of the planning and inspiration for the new Schloss.
This project was actually begun in 2009 when Moon Adamant and the New Guild formed a working group to assemble feedback and images. A great deal of useful material was collected, but sadly the subsequent course of events resulted in a discontinuance of the project. The material is far to valuable to overlook, so I have retrieved it and edited it somewhat for a presentation at this time.
The 2009 collaborative text document is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id ... 7PivH2JWxg
and the associated images which Moon collected are located here:
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id ... 308hww78dc
In preparation for this project, Rosie and I absorbed the very useful information presented in that material. Taking it all in, we realized that the primary image for a "Bavarian schloss" had to be the Schloss Neuschwanstein, well known to tourists and historians as the very symbol of Bavarian "schloss-ness". Accordingly, Rosie collected the following beautiful set of pictures of that important building, found here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/pu ... ayms=10000
Finally, I created a working plot plan from which we can plan construction
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub ... utput=html
I'll place this text into a notecard and distribute it to all members of the CDS group. We look forward to your thoughts and comments.
Sudane.......................................
