Research

Unity Temple was an interesting project for Frank Lloyd Wright. He usually made his architecture work flow with nature. However, Unity Temple was downtown on the corner of 2 busy roads. Therefore the project had to bring natural light into the religious building without over illuminating the space and still block out the noise from the streets outside. In order to accomplish this task, Wright created a light scheme that included high windows to flow the light down softly into the space as well as many skylights. The skylights had colored glass in them so as to turn the bright light into more nature colored light to enter the space.

Research Pictures

Exterior view of Unity Temple

Full height view of interior

View of high windows

Lighted view of interior

Colored glass skylights