Hillside science
On a walk with Roxie today, I came across this amazing old building. It appeared partially abandoned, although there were still arts, crafts, and school stuff inside. The plaque by the door said it used to be the Hillside School, built in 1925 in the Tudor style, and it’s now an historical landmark.
I looked at it, walked around, and decided I wanted it. If I ever have enough money at the right time, I want to buy this old place and turn it into my own research and learning building: a big huge library and reading room in that big, windowed room on the left, and halls and halls of lab space, and collections space, and storage space all along the corridors. A conference room, and workout room, and a place to make art. I’d take out all the non-essential doors and walls in the long corridors, and make it a totally free-form lab space, completely seamless, though partitioned as needed for work. It would be a place for ideas and a huge amount of productive work.
Turns out the place has just been vacated. The Berkeley School of the Arts just quit in January. I don’t know what’s going to happen to the building. There are no signs, no indications of movement, improvement, or activity. I also learned it sits squarely on the Hayward Fault. But it’s an awesome place, and the start of a great idea for me.
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Where there’s a will, there’s a way! This look like an awesome place. Life is what we make of it.
Comment by Jenna — March 12, 2006 @ 5:44 am