strata uplift
Strata Uplift responds to the shifting ground beneath the layered histories, pressures, and forces that shape both landscape and culture.
Emerging at the threshold between movement and arrival, the work marks a point of entry: not only into a structure, but into a condition of transition. Angled prisms pass through the building interrupting the expected order of surface and volume. In doing so, they suggest a moment of emergence with forms rising, cutting, and reorienting space as though lifted from within.
The floating anodized aluminum chevrons hold and reflect light as it changes across the day. Their shifting golden tones evoke both a signal and a horizon that is directional, luminous, and provisional. They do not settle into a fixed reading, but instead register time, weather, and motion.
The work draws from the visible strata of the Front Range, where geological layers record vast durations of compression, fracture, and uplift. These formations, shaped over immeasurable time, appear suddenly at the surface tilted, exposed, and redefined. Here, that condition is translated into a constructed language: a gesture of emergence within the built environment where structure meets landscape.
Strata Uplift acknowledges the city as a site of continual layering, stacking movement, and accretive memory. It frames the act of passing through as part of a larger accumulation, where each trajectory contributes to an ongoing formation.
This work offers a marker of passage and transformation. It is a fixed intervention that remains responsive to light, time, and perception that stands not as a conclusion, but as an aperture through which the built and the geological, the immediate and the enduring, briefly align.
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Collaborator:
David Franklin (w)
Structural Engineering:
Rbhu Engineering (w)
Fabrication:
Specialty Metals (w)
Installation:
Blue Spruce Construction (w)
Emerging at the threshold between movement and arrival, the work marks a point of entry: not only into a structure, but into a condition of transition. Angled prisms pass through the building interrupting the expected order of surface and volume. In doing so, they suggest a moment of emergence with forms rising, cutting, and reorienting space as though lifted from within.
The floating anodized aluminum chevrons hold and reflect light as it changes across the day. Their shifting golden tones evoke both a signal and a horizon that is directional, luminous, and provisional. They do not settle into a fixed reading, but instead register time, weather, and motion.
The work draws from the visible strata of the Front Range, where geological layers record vast durations of compression, fracture, and uplift. These formations, shaped over immeasurable time, appear suddenly at the surface tilted, exposed, and redefined. Here, that condition is translated into a constructed language: a gesture of emergence within the built environment where structure meets landscape.
Strata Uplift acknowledges the city as a site of continual layering, stacking movement, and accretive memory. It frames the act of passing through as part of a larger accumulation, where each trajectory contributes to an ongoing formation.
This work offers a marker of passage and transformation. It is a fixed intervention that remains responsive to light, time, and perception that stands not as a conclusion, but as an aperture through which the built and the geological, the immediate and the enduring, briefly align.
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Collaborator:
David Franklin (w)
Structural Engineering:
Rbhu Engineering (w)
Fabrication:
Specialty Metals (w)
Installation:
Blue Spruce Construction (w)