A City in the Sky?

 Having established an interest in a top-down approach, beginning analysis at the rooftop level and moving down towards the existing street level, I began a design proposal. As with my research, I started my work on the rooftop level looking at notions of a City in the Sky. Below are two study models I made of possible design proposals: the first is of a new layer within the city that creates an above and underground where the new layer becomes a new "ground zero"; the second is of a rooftop canopy condition that somewhat resembles the gardens of Babylon playing into the ancient history of Athens.