A cultural mining museum
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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.