Windows that begin at a level which makes it impossible to see out, can create feelings of constriction and control. I have seen this designed into a child’s room as a conscious effort to control a “hyperactive” child. The child’s behavior became even more erratic, and the designing parents could not understand why.

Perhaps the answer was to have been found in the state of their own chi – perhaps a recognition that their child was in need of attention, not control. This was a design detail I considered graffiti.