Research Phase:
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2001-5

Initial Site Studies: Geologic Analysis of UMN Campus and Selected Buildings

Top Left Image: Civil Engineering Complex: Holocene structure of varied composition with 1-7 floor penetration into Quaternary and Paleozoic sediments: Building: Brick - local altered Paleozoic sediment. Site: differentiated glacial till - Quaternary; Decorah Shale - Ordovician; Platteville Formation - Ordovician; St. Peter Sandstone - Ordovician; Parie du Chien Group - Ordovician.

Top Center Image: College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture;
Holocene structure of varied composition resting on Quaternary sediments with shallow penetration. Original building: Brick - local altered Paleozoic sediment; New Addition: Concrete - local altered Cambrian sediment; Copper Sheathing - Chilean altered metamorphic (?) rock; Site: same as adjacent Civil Engineering Complex.

Top Right Image: Pillsbury Hall: Geology Department Holocene structure of primarily Proterozoic sediments resting on Quaternary sediments with shallow penetration. Building: Fond du Lac and Hinckley sandstone: Keweenawan Supergroup, late Proterozoic Era, Northern MN. Site: same as adjacent Civil Engineering Complex.

Bottom Image: Mississippi River section (looking east): Holocene structures (UMN campus) above late Cenozoic glacial sediments and Paleozoic marine sediments (see Civil Eng. Complex, above).

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