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| Concept
Making a parallel between the building's program and
its site was the intent of my project. Seeing how
Lincoln, like most cities, grew outward from its core,
I viewed the site in which the daycare/senior
citizens centre would be set as a timeline. One
side of the site faced downtown, the origin of the
city, its oldest part. The other faced the outskirts,
where Lincoln grew, in essence, younger Lincoln.
Trying to translate this language into a building
that would serve both the town's old and its young,
I decided to make the side that faced downtown act
as an anchor, visually, experientially, physically,
and programmatically. The two classroom wings
then pull away from the anchor, but are nonetheless
still attached to it at key points of the building's program:
the administrative hub and the assembly space. The
two attachment points, one a control from above
(administrative), the other a control from below
(assembly), are polar opposites of each other and are
meant to represent the stereotypes generally associated
with old and young people (conservative and
liberal, respectively). The building would then serve
as a stage for the two groups to interact together
and to learn from each other.
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