Sasebo City Hall (1987)

CONCEPT: The town hall represents the city itself, built into a canyon with a river-like water feature which establishes an axis linking the site to an existing civic complex. A solar receiver / transmitter tracks the sun and reflects light onto swivel shoji-like screens, decreasing in intensity to a series of inside screens to opaque subterranean rear wall. Usage zones from public to private coincide with light intensity.

SCHOOL: University of Utah fifth year design Master of Architecture course.

DATE: 1987.