Time & experience in Dig Mentally layers
The history is always in layers, and if architecture is to make people experience history, it is supposed to make them Experience it in layers as-well, exactly as it has been created. This means that one will have to go from the existing layer of history, which is the present, to the past. This means to go in the direction opposite to the order in which the geographical layers are already arranged. This means going to the Underground, since we all exist on the ground. In order to see the future, we go beyond the ground level so that we can see what is to come in the future. In addition to this experience, we also have to structure the journey, and stimulate the minds as much as we can, in order to bring people closer to what the real experience of the past was like.
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I. Reff. area II. Exhibition area III. Office area IV. Rest room V. Open Lobby ( Served area )
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Initial ideal of the tower
Merging Tower and tunnel system together
Masses to be removed
Core struCture
Memorial
Circulation system
Landings
Termite mounds ventilation principle applied
Core structure affecting the overall shape
wall
Ribs structural skeleton
Tunnel system
Reflection Area
section for 100 new graves
The masses to be removed
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Skin panels structure.
Circulation diagrams of the tower
Skeleton diagram of the tower Tunnel system fundamental geometry
Core Shell
ALA 226: Spring 2016 Design Fundamentals IV
Student: Emery Karenzi Instructor: Diego Garcia-Setien