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Morrow Dam

Design/Completion 1985/1986 Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA STS Consultants Ltd Steel frame

Concrete, glass błock, glass

The project is a hydroelectric power plant housing machinery and related dynamie operations. A prismatic triangular structure continues the rhythm of the existing spillway expressing the strength of the power housed within. The design uses the triangle as a basie form, the Steel bent as a modulator, and the green glass sheathing as a reflector of the sky, water, and landscape.

For generał maintenance, removal, and replacement of the hydroelectric machinery within the plant, a crane was incorporated into the structure. The crane can travel freely longitudinally and transversely throughout the space.

A computerized system, operated from the control room at grade level, monitors the hydroelectric machinery. The dam also acts as a passive solar collcctor.

1    Interior view from generator levcl

2    Extcrior view looking north-cast

3    East clcvation

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