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Steel to Solar: A Civic Learning Spine

Steel to Solar reimagines a post-industrial slope as a civic learning landscape. The project embeds a public building within the terrain, carving a continuous circulation spine that connects workshops, exhibition spaces, and an amphitheater into a unified spatial sequence.Rather than placing an object on the site, the architecture is shaped by sectional logic—cutting, layering, and terracing the ground to create open public platforms that transition into more focused interior environments.The building operates as both infrastructure and social condenser.

Environmental strategies are integrated through passive cooling courtyards, daylight-driven section cuts, and a roofscape prepared for solar integration.By transforming steel-era ground into a renewable civic framework, the project positions architecture as a catalyst for collective learning and spatial regeneration.

Location

Pueblo, CO, Unites States

About the Applicant

Yusa Kurkcu is a final-year architecture student at the University of Colorado Denver. His work focuses on sectional thinking, spatial narrative, and the transformation of industrial landscapes into socially driven public infrastructures. With a strong interest in sustainable systems and material logic, he explores architecture as both environmental strategy and civic framework. His projects investigate how form, circulation, and ground manipulation can generate collective spatial experiences.

Project Authors

Yusa Kurkcu

Images

Yusa Kurkcu

Other participants

Studio instructor: Adam Burton