A PROJECT OF MONUMENTAL OBSERVATORY TOWER FOR TOWN PROMOTION BASED ON VERNACULAR DESIGN MOTIF AND HISTORIC REMAINS

Abstract

In the occasion of setting up of local community facility, it is important not only to give it fashionable currently figure but also a new form emblematizing cultural resources of it's located town. We designed a monumental observatory tower considering a figure of the watch-tower of historical medieval mountain castle once built and ruined just on the site, and arch shape of stone-bridges widely distributed in this town. In addition to those consideration, we tried to realize the participation of the inhabitants in the decision process of image design.