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The infrastructure of building is under a grey tone. The materials that used to build meeting place is fireproofing and anti-explosion, because it is connected to the numbers of laboratories, which create a certain safe environment for science students to do experiments. However, this grey tone and fireproofing material is creating and enhancing a sense of coldness and loneliness. The ground of meeting place is constructed with the mixture of three different colours of tiles, which are all in red-brown tones, thus, create a visual comparison with the overall grey tone to add colours to the place, so does a sense of warmness. 

I was there at 4:02 on January 30th afternoon, a normal Tuesday afternoon, when I had normal classes, and was having my personal relaxation time. But it was unusual that there were booths in the meeting places, people were selling things. Upon on my arrival, most of the booths were cleaned, which left a much more less busy atmosphere in meeting place. The uncleaned tables and chairs were the signals which were telling people that it was busy and noisy before, and now everything started to return to normal. It had recalled me other days of the space in meeting place. In some days, meeting place was empty without any tables or chairs; some days, there were students presenting their posters; on Wednesdays, the farmers’ market always turn meeting place a joyful place with people’s talking and smells of bakery and candles. All these events, and movement of people and air have make the meeting place become a place for people to “meet”, for activities to “meet” the students and staff. It has the energy to hold and embrace all sorts of atmospheres.

There are decorations just over the main floor of the place, I don’t know what the meaning is, but the flow of winds caused by people walking by, somehow make the decoration paper lines waving and swaying in the middle of the air. There are white, orange and blue three different colours of decorating paper, and I am curious about the meaning of them. But I never asked anyone about these decorations, and I knew that they usually have meanings.