Site Studies:
Rapson Group - Geology Text Panels
College of Design
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2001-5
(A collaboration with Prof. Rebecca Krinke,
UMN-CALA Faculty)
The Rapson Group text panels
giving geologic and geographic information about the natural origin
of the 4 primary materials used in the construction of the new
and older
sections of College of
Design building are to be etched directly into each material
in-situ. Images above
show placement of paper mock-ups for each text panel to be etched
on
materials of the College of
Design building - image key below.
The geologic
information for each material-text panel may include: mineralogy,
age of original
deposit, location of deposit (longitude, latitude, depth
altitude or depth, geologic context), holocene transport and depositional/installation
characteristics, analysis of metamorphic
processes, original and current depositional environment and facies,
and other relevant characteristics of the materials and processes
in
a geologic/anthroturbational context.
Geologic laboratory analysis was performed on samples of each material
by Katherine Waring and associates at the UC Davis Geology Department
(thin sections) and Mineral
Labs, Inc., Lakewood, CO. as appropriate for the material:
scanning electron microscopy (SEM). energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy
(EDS) and/or x-ray
fluorescence (XRF), or x-ray diffraction
(XRD). Laboratory results are available through links for each
material below. Mineral Lab Technical
Analysis Specifications.
upper left:
Profilit GLASS facade of European geologic origin
GLASS Laboratory Analysis Data
upper right:
COPPER facade of North and South American geologic origin
COPPER Laboratory Analysis Data
lower left: structural CONCRETE
of Mid-West North American
geologic origin
CONCRETE Laboratory Analysis Data
lower right: BRICK facade of Minnesota geologic origin.
BRICK Laboratory Analysis Data
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