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LOLOMA TRANSPORTATION CENTER
Scottsdale, Arizona
1997
Architecture from the ground up: the pavement folds up to make buildings and furniture; the floor of the site turns into roofs
The pavement is inscribed with three sets of concentric circles, like targets, alternating rings of red and beige like the soil of the American southwest -- here and there, the pavement folds up to make benches, leaving room for soil and ground-cover and trees.
Each center of the three sets of circles is a vanishing point for buildings, built in forced perspective. As the pavement folds up to make a roof, another swathe of pavement – this one like brown soil – sweeps in. from the vanishing point, to make the floor.
The circular pavement folds up to make a clock tower, a passenger-services building, bus shelters. The folding pavement turns inward, to form a plaza, and outward, to meet transportation.
This project view belongs to Scottsdale Transportation Center, and is threadged with:
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