Stepping onto the 25th floor of the City Hall of Buffalo, I am confronted first by the impression that I feel like a tourist standing on the observation tower to look at beautiful exotic scenery.

Buffalo's proximity to Niagara Falls, one of the world's most recognized tourist attractions, further reinforces this feeling. However, there is a big gap between first impressions and reality. If Niagara Falls, and on some level, Buffalo City Hall, represent a kind of promise of grandeur and greatness to visitors in the area, the reality of downtown Buffalo and upstate New York presents a different, more sobering view.

My proposal for the use of space on the 25th floor of Buffalo City Hall is to present viewers or visitors with an inversion of expected roles. -A displacement-.

Unlike the usual mode of viewing experienced through the windows on the 25th floor, there is a separated space, which can be understood in terms of my inverted emotions, between passively shaped space -- much like our regular experience we can only see; and actively shaped space, our desires which we always confront as we live. The separated space can represent an imaginary translation that reflects on my position, a tourist being in Buffalo, or on every single human being as tourists in their own lives.

Even without understanding the spatial existence of the separated space, the patterns of the streets of the city of Buffalo through the windows create the feeling of being in a maze, the maze that we experience as we progress through our daily existence.

The room is represented as the separated space constructed as a maze forcing visitors to enter the space and navigate in movement from one place to another. The goal is to follow the maze from one end to another to find a single observation viewing mechanism (a view finder), either in reference to or similar to the same kinds of coin operated machines used at Niagara falls on the observation decks open to the public. But instead of looking out at the world, to a magnificent panoramic view, the view of the tourist is directed back into the room. The room will be painted and covered with black, so that people are not allowed to see the inside of the room, but the glow in a dark paint will be painted onto the maze so that people can walk along the path of the maze. Once people reach the view finder, they will actually look at a small LCD screen that provides video of abstract landscapes/images of the maze.