A cultural mining museum
Resumen
RESEARCH TOPIC:
Architecture as a social and cultural history lesson.
MISSION STATEMENT:
The mission of this project is to educate the public
about the culture and the society that surrounded the miner
and his profession by communicating the psychological,
physical, and emotional tortures that were faced daily.
THESIS STATEMENT:
This project will use the underworld and gold as
associations in architecture to communicate the
psychological, physical, and emotional conflicts created in
our conscience. Through the architecture, the facility will
exploit the parallel between greed, the internal drive for
monetary wealth and power, and fear in the historic
Colorado miner. This will be accomplished by the use of
sequences, iconic elements, spaces, scale and familiar
elements used in an unfamiliar ways.
FACILITY TYPE:
The facility type best suited for this thesis is that of
a small museum.