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The wrist of St. Francis is the first location/exercise for the project. It perhaps is the beginning investigation about constructing an architecture that inhabits a site, extends myths, and creates new meaning and narratives.

In medicine, a site is a part of the body that is of interest, perhaps related to some trauma, deficincy, or perhaps hypertrophy. By re-interpreting St. Francis' holy stigmata wounds as surgical openings, the wrist is viewed in a medical sense as a site. The architecture that inhabits this site attempts to surgically calibrate and tune the site conditions. Here, the raw and inert material is transformed into an artifact. The site is calibrated as a "Slow-Twitch" site, that responds at the rate of healing and bone grafts.