1987.1 - Resonating with the Highway, Arlington

Abstract

Design work from the 1987 spring semester, Studio Martin Price, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Arlington. Housing, Office, Commercial, Hotel Complex. Forms rise and fall in consonance with the swirling, rising and descending highway intersections of highway 360 and 183 in Arlington in scheme one. Sections appear to parallel the highway or radiate from a center point of a circle. Portions of a hill where highway 20 in Arlington separates, is radically removed in scheme two. It is then rebuilt with the original profile of the hill as a backbone-like ridge line of office space, which rhythmically ripples away with undulating lines of hotel, commercial space and housing.