Additional Projects Of Mine

The First Steps Into Imagination  Developing My Drafting Techniques  The Industrialist  Architecture Site Visits  Tequesta Burial Mound Pavilion  Melody Park  The Frontiersman  Applying My Computer Skills  Ratatouille Spice Rack  Museum Of Endless Experiences  "The Aquarius" Recycling Plant  Trinity Towers  Ekata Peace Center  Nebula Trail

Human Rights Museum Project

With a new semester, came new projects, different obstacles to pass.  This project given by Professor Amarjeet Sawhney, involved analyzing a space currently inhabited by a museum, a museum in my opinion never fully lived up to it's purpose.  With the dimensions of the area known, upon myself taking the initiative to email the firm of the current museum, asking for the site dimensions and any other information that can help the class succeed in reaching it's goal, this project was then underway.  With guidance from Professor Sawhney, and fellow architecture mentor, Anthony, my project then evolved using a concept from the past, utilizing the purpose of Article 3 in the "International Bill Of Human Rights", my own design was born.

History Of Human Rights

History Of The Ziggurat

Ziggurats were built by the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites, Akkadians, and Assyrians for local religions.  Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex which included other buildings.  The precursors of the ziggurat were raised platforms that date from the Ubaid period during the fourth millennium BCE.  The earliest ziggurats began near the end of the Early Dynastic Period (2900–2350 BCE).  The latest Mesopotamian ziggurats date from the 6th century BCE.  Built in receding tiers upon a rectangular, oval, or square platform, the ziggurat was a pyramidal structure with a flat top. Sun-baked bricks made up the core of the ziggurat with facings of fired bricks on the outside.  The facings were often glazed in different colors and may have had astrological significance.  Kings sometimes had their names engraved on these glazed bricks.  The number of tiers ranged from two to seven.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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