3/26/2023 0 Comments 7 years from now honoka![]() Despair, or something else, her emotions were a jumbled mess at the moment. ![]() ![]() It was impossible, she knew, but desperation makes people do stupid things. She didn't want to tell Meredith she - maybe unconsciously - was trying to finish in time to arrive at the FBB tournament. Honoka didn't say anything, just stood and walked out listlessly. “Now.” Meredith grabbed Honoka’s bag and gently looped it over Honoka’s shoulder with one giant hand. “Just a minute, need to finish this track lighting layout…” “Oh.” The addled woman turned back to her computer. We are the only ones here, and your last bus leaves in fifteen minutes.” “What?” asked Honoka, obviously not yet fully back in the real world. Spinning her chair around, she found a haggard Meredith looming outside her cube, a concerned look wrinkling her eye. The young woman was surprised to find quiet cubicles, the faint sound of a vacuum in the distance and the soft whoosh of AC the only noises in the building. Honoka blinked, her eyes gummy from staring at computer screens for so long. The short of it, architectural design is less let me design for you a magnificent building! and more can this outlet be three feet from the window, or is that against code? Her desk was an explosion of other handwritten notes, stickies, piles of books for city, state and federal building regulations cross-referenced with company compliance and SOP packets. ![]() The exact procedures are different for every company, but at BAS, lower-tier architects spent most of their days with a CAD program open in one window and a collection of notes, revisions and memos filling dozens of others. Architects fresh off the assembly line begin working in large firms like BAS, taking abstract art and translating them into functional blueprints. Honoka wasn't lead designer, that architect worked in a posh office on a floor high above the plebes. Working on the architectural details of a Gremlin Bank remained tedious. ![]()
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