More info on National Museum of Australia

I was able to find more visual explanation for the boolean knot discussed in my previous posting on the National Museum of Australia. 

I obtained these diagrams from the National Museum of Australia: Tangled Destinies editted by Dimity Reed.

Boolean Knot Diagram & Resulting Plans

Boolean Subtraction for Main Hall (plans above) 

Boolean subtraction by "Boolean String"

Boolean Subtraction from Super Ellipse

"The knot and its many interpretations became the topology of the new icon, a new kind of extrusion space, now wholly three dimensional, as though gravitation free, virtual space awaiting its own output, able to merge entirely into toher solids to extract itself precisely (by Boolean subtraction) now defining space as if by erosion, moulding space to deine the cast, negating space to await fulfillment."  p.105

"There a knot was subtracted from a Super Ellipse, creating a 'wormhole in space.'" p. 105

Seeing the two initial objects that were used in the Boolean operation allowed me a much better understanding that the pure word description was not offering me.  I now see how the knot diagram representing the tangled history of Australia was used to carve or "bool" out the main programs to create unique architectural spaces.