Architectural Design IIIA

City InterventionArchitectural Design III

Fall 2008Professor White

Tower of Light

The placement of an architectural structure on a site need not only respond to its immediate surrounding, but to those that appear to be unrelated. The area of study for this project was downtown

Orlando Florida. An area where new meets Orlando Florida. An area where new meets old and extreme poverty meets untold

wealth. The area is rife with contradictions, particularly of scale in contradictions, particularly of scale in what seems like a war between human,

transport, and regional scales. The most striking element is Interstate-four, which slices through the heart of the city creating a void or no-man’s land, which creating a void or no-man’s land, which isolates the poorest of the poor in the

city.

The project Began with a diagram of the city of Orlando and the selection of the Tower of Light, previous page, as an artifact. This lead to a nine-hour drawing exploring the voids of the

city.

Figure-Ground Drawings to feature the Tower of Light.

An abstract of Downtown Orlando with the Exhibition Space inserted.

The Exhibition Space designed to feature the Tower of Light. The Tower of Light symbolizes the “Intersection of provate and public interests and the aspirations of

the community.”