EDBERT CHENG
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EDBERT CHENG
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WIND GATE

Spring 2013 | Laxe, Spain | Cornell University
Professor Maria Hurtado de Mendoza | TA Mia Kang


At the edge of Galicia, Spain, there stands a pair of solitary towers. One is a metal monolith, an industrial Tower for People; the other is an efferescent Tower of Light. The two towers form a spiritual gate, welcoming the brutal Atantic winds from the coasts. A visitor to the lighthouse walks along a curving path, before turning a corner and crossing into the threshold of the towers. Just before the walker lies the tower of the floating box, and to the righ the entrance to the lodge. From there, he can go below, into the half-submerged stone basement to find  rooms, a sunken courtyard, and a chapel - or he can circulate upward to experience the spaces of the People’s Tower: a double-height loft, a sineous steel bridge, and a sky garden. The walker has found himself in a spiritual space, a sublime outpost on a rural hilltop. 
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