This Project focused on designing a lighthouse with the meaning of metaphoric and symbolic, its components based around the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster in italy.

 

Participants are asked to redefine a contemporary lighthouse typology and take into consideration advances in technology, development of sustainable systems and its metaphorical value. The design should become a tribute to the Costa Concordia Disaster and highlight the vulnerable borders between the elements of Land and Sea, Sky and Ground, Light and Darkness. Even today when global positioning systems diminish the role of the lighthouses, they still play and important role and are inalienable parts of the marine navigation tradition. 

 

This team project had 3 people to conduct the overal design. I was responsible for first concept idea, architectual design, landscape design, all final graphic rendering, and all final visual presentation.

 

 

 

Design content

 

An allée of Alnus cordata lead visitors to an unmistakable view of the Italian coastline. As people descend on the walkway and enter the Observation Space, they are greeted by a sleek glass room. At the end of this room are 28 digital monitors. Each monitor is linked to an individual, live webcam. These webcams are mounted on lighthouses across the world. Any visitors who come to the Parallel Past can enjoy a modern twist on the traditional idea of a lighthouse. The Observation Space allows a view of the immediate surroundings while keeping in mind the historic past of older lighthouses and what they saw.

 

On the outside of the Observation Space there will be one     lighted wall. This wall is to be located on the outside of the webcam wall. The light on the outside will give maritime signals to boats based off of weather conditions in the immediate area. Like the lighthouses of the past this signaling will aid present day mariners with technology. A direct link between the past and present lighthouses can be found by this configuration.

 

A walkway leads from the Alnus cordata down to a pier. This pier will allow for the docking of ferries going to and from the island. When people come to Isola del Giglio, their first memory should be of a new lighthouse and a Parallel Past.