Kunstviertel in Kassel (Sectional perspective Artist quarter)

The "Artist Quarter" is concerned with applying a new urban crust upon the existing "clifflike" condition at the western end of Kassel, the city that became the hub of the contemporary art world with its Documenta exhibition. A series of towers articulate a labyrinthine interior organisation but also act as external references. The project then develops into a hierarchy of conditions: some of almost traditional small street dimensions, some as "trays" of ground in space and some which develop at almost megastructural scale.
This technical pen ink drawing on A-1 transparent paper, first of a series of five, is from my student times, under P.Cook at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, and the project got the second prize at the Royal Institute of British Architects "New in the Old" competition with Sir Richard Rogers as Head of the jury and exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.