The Rapson Group Geolgy Text Panels, installed 2013, giving geologic and geographic information about the natural origin
of 3 of the 4 primary materials used in the construction of the new
and older
sections of College of
Design, Rapson Hall structure etched directly into each material
in-situ. Drawings at top show original sites of brick, copper, concrete and glass installation sites, circa 2007. Final installation of concrete, copper and glass were re-located in proximity of the West Garden and the collaborative piece done with Rebecca Krinke, SITE INDEX, installed 2004, the only garden of 4 planned gardens constructed to date located in four spaces of the Steven Holl designed Rapson Hall annex. Brick text panel was not installed as planned on the orginal Rapson Hall structure. Publication of a document detailing all the research for the panels in the form of a small edition, large-format book is in process. One or more copies of this document will be housed in the College of Design Library at Rapson Hall.
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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. |
