The challenge of this assignment was taking a famous standalone building and integrating it into a fill-in city building with structures on both sides located in Detroit. I was assigned the Sydney Opera House, transforming this large, free-flowing work of art into something that could aesthetically match with the rest of Detroit's architecture proved to be quite challenging. The main challenge was incorporating the "shells" into the building, finally I found a solution in creating cone-like structures similar to the shells, but instead of following the shape of a sphere like the real Opera House, the cones were cuts out of cylinder. I found that by using a shape that had curvature on one axis instead of two, it became possible to build the opera house inside the restricting city envelope. The front façade is all glass, making the cones viewable from the street. A portion of the glass façade is set back from the street, flowing back on an angle with the cone, this creates a striking exterior and emphasizes the skylights. Peeking through the roof, the skylights are glass tips on the tops of the cones, maximizing even the smallest portion of space within the cones. The cones are offset to the right, optimizing the open space on the left and creating vertical viewpoints of the cones on the right. The space inside the cones is useable on all floors seeing as the floor plates go through the cones laterally. This project was awarded honors and was featured in Lawrence Technological University’s Fine Grain Scholar Gallery.