Simon Xu + Alex Cao

This thesis is to see if we can insert a drastically different story and historical background into a site with the narration of architecture (the towers).

The story that we try to insert is that of the last and first man. It is a story about millennia after when our galaxy faces distortion and humanity meets our end. In the last effect of saving the race, the last man sent a message to the current generation as an effect of changing the inevitable demise.

We think of the message not as a movie, a letter, or a book, but as an architecture—in this case, a set of towers. Those monumental towers will try to recreate the "Spomenik" of its timelessness and its meaning of being the sculpture of the new human.

This set of towers will each represent one of the seven parts of the story. Those parts of the story will influence the design of the tower and the experience of walking through it. The tower-to-tower relation will also be synchronized with the part to part’s relation of the story on a three-dimensional level.