> research 2: prospective inversion
A theoretical project for a new conference centre and hotel in Philadelphia that investigated the method of using differences productively, tested its hypothesis through the specific problem of connecting two contrasting horizontally extensive plans, one at roof level, the other at ground level. The structural inversion from columns at ground level to ‘cells’ or rooms at roof level produces 32 tapering towers housing the hotel rooms that overlook the convention centre floor below. The programmatic consequence of this exploited duality is a multivalency of occupation; the urban and the intimate become connected by a new roof structure for the city.
