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

Study: Inversion2: Dark Matter (Proterozoic/Holocene) I

View of exterior with encompassing lava flow, heated springs (steam) and naturally propagated moss, urban and native 'drift' species.

As an inversion2 of Stephen Holl's conceptual thinking for the CALA building, this proposal brings a simaculum of the Proterozoic rift system buried several Km. below to the Holocene surface of the site as an active geological-biological system. The effect is somewhat like a newly-formed volcanic island where life is brought in randomly by wind and ocean currents, nurtured by moist steam vents from the cooling lava.

 

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