Concept Stage:
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2001-5

Study for Video Projection: Inversion2: Dark Matter (Proterozoic/Holocene) II

A series of projection units (video, holographic, digital, etc,) operating in the central section of the CALA addition. The image being projected is derived from the aeromagnetic data of Minnesota bedrock geology below the CALA site -- the data that was used to discover the structure of the Proterozoic era rift system some 14.000 ft. below.

Like Inversion2 I, this concept echo's and inverts Stephen Holl's design for the new addition to the CALA complex. The use of data describing dark volcanic matter from a deeply buried and invisible part of the site propagates Holl's inversion of the interior facing structure of the existing Architecture/Landscape Architecture building into an outward reaching and light filled appendage-like form of the new addition into aninversion of the site meta-chronologically (Proterozoic/Holocene) and structurally (contemporary building/deeply buried volcanics).

This inversion is further amplified by the relationship of Holl's interest in the physics of light as a luminous phenomena and the use of geophysical data in the form of aero-magnetic anomaly measurements that mathematically describe the buried Proterozoic Rift system composed of extremely dense ultra-mafic rocks. This project is intended to be installed in a smaller form at CALA.

 

Research 1; Research 2; Research 3; Conceptual 2; Conceptual 3; Design 1; Design 2; Quarry 1; Quarry 2