Portfolio: Forum/Gateway

This proposed urban piazza and gateway is intended to create a new civic identity for the town of Covington, Kentucky, while connecting it back across the Ohio River to Cincinnati, Ohio. The new piazza is monumental in scale and becomes both a reference to and a mediation between the city and the Roebling Bridge, the longest single-span suspension bridge at the time of its construction. The central focus of the forum is a "Museum of Engineering Technology" which would document the history of the Roebling Bridge and provide exhibits on the history of civic works of engineering. The museum is modeled on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and an important paradigm for a number of buildings across the river in Cincinnati. The three-sided forum has ground floor arcades that permit shaded and protected passageways as well as providing large areas of shop fronts for retail use. Upper floors are planned for office and residential uses.