There is a light - WA Awards - WA Awards
Lighthouse - plan
There is a light - WA Awards - Within all physical constrictions, there is an identification landmark. It is a built balance point, loosening itself like a ball of wool with arms like octupus tentacles, which blaze their trail through an extremely dense urban fabric, collecting people from in the streets.
The illustrated example could represent any extensively overbuilt area, any megacity, or even a fictive urban footprint. A lighthouse watches over an urban district.
There is a light - WA Awards - A lighthouse is watching over the city, a living and breathing organism, structured and re-structured again and again by its inhabitants in an open cycle. It is an orientation point, a visible sign, arising above the milling mass filling out the narrow streets. The head high up, peering up here and there as a direction sign at daytime, it is gleaming at night, sending out luminous rays, showing the way.
There is a light - WA Awards - Lighthouse - first idea sketches
There is a light - WA Awards - On the lookout platform and meeting point tea is served. Business deals are made. Festivities are celebrated. Tourists come and go. The delicate and complex system of interfering lifstyles and urban transformation processes let the city appear in an almost liquid state. The panoramic view is telling about diversity and cultural richness. From above, the city's anatomy becomes more and more tangible and can nearly be imagined in its entireness - whereas the changing city keeps on sizzling.
There is a light - WA Awards - The city gives a more realistic frame to the provocation. Indeed, the tower is a most disturbing intervention. The superstructure imposes itself on the never-ending pattern of houses underneath it, as well as the wide-stretching areas of high urban density often reflect individual life only insufficiently. Megastructure meets mega-extension.
This project, after all, is not supposed to be correct. It is supposed to be an exaggeration. It is supposed to be unsettling and striking.
There is a light - WA Awards - Concept drawing:
There is a light.
WA Awards Poster - World Architecture Community Poster
WA awards, Fifth Cycle, September 2009
www.worldarchitecture.org
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