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Jeffrey S Sipe

Jeffrey S Sipe

Palmyra, PA, US

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Walrus area (L); Seals (R); Otters (T)
Walrus area (L); Seals (R); Otters (T)
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Walrus, Seal and Otter Coliseum

This project, is both old and new, and still unbuilt;  in that it was my thesis project from college days at the No.1 Architectural Design School in US (Cincinnati DAAP ca. 1986);  it envisioned a new closer-to-experience Saltwater Habitat for the Existing Orlando Facility (place of co-operative employment and unnamed but obvious);  at the time, the site, was the Walrus, Seal and Otter Show;  what is new, is that back then, rendering was time-consuming, and space frames and curves hard to draft and scale model;  so using modern software, and finally resolving the space-frame support structures in the middle ,,, thus I present the modern Roman Animal Coliseum.

 
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Status: Unbuilt
Location: Orlando, Florida
My Role: Architect

 
Space Frame is Support Area, RR
Space Frame is Support Area, RR
Restrooms M (red); F (yellow)
Restrooms M (red); F (yellow)
Green Ring is a gathering Odeon
Green Ring is a gathering Odeon
Glass Floor and Rails
Glass Floor and Rails
3/4 Submerged Tube
3/4 Submerged Tube