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Our proposal for the Site Santa Fe 2014 biennial exhibition entrance is
a grand landform-like canopy that alludes to Santa Fe’s layered
cultural histories. As an enveloping landscape created from an
aggregation of Kraft paper tubes, experience of the structure suggests
that its formation may have been subtractive, as if through erosion or
excavation. Informed by the regions’ histories of shaping the earth for
dwellings, community and spiritual spaces as well as through mining and
extraction, the temporary structure reconnects threads of Santa Fe’s
history from ancient to contemporary cultures.
Made from recycled and recyclable Kraft paper tubes with a water
resistant coating, the canopy shades the plaza in front of the gallery
in a dappled pattern that changes with the sun’s course across the sky.
A large circular enclosure is located near the building’s main
entrance. The enclosure’s shape is informed by the kiva, and appears to
be carved from the landscape-like mass around it. The shade canopy is
corbeled off of the enclosure and a second support, forming a large
umbrella composed of small circular apertures. The structure’s Kraft
paper tubes are connected along their sides, assembled in modules and
erected in sections. The circular enclosure is covered with a simple
wood and canvas parasol that is notched into the top ends of the tubes.
Presenting a neutral, earth-toned surface to the outside, the tubes’
interiors are colored brilliant turquoise, alluding to the long history
and shifting value of the commodity’s extraction from the region. A
valuable export in ancient times, turquoise became worthless under
Spanish colonization; it competed in value with gold at the turn of the
century, and is now - as a mineral and a color – a commonplace
identifier of Santa Fe’s folk art reputation in the wider world. The
Kraft paper color makes reference to Pueblo adobe architecture and the
landscape itself while the turquoise color, barely concealed as an
interior surface, stands out against the brown paper wrapper. The
contrast can be read as locally and architecturally appropriate while
also allowing that there may be dissonance between Santa Fe’s vibrant
arts identity and its uniform architectural design guidelines. In that
sense this temporary structure is compliant on the outside, and animated
- even potentially rebellious - on the inside, speaking both the city’s
current status and its history of colonization.
a grand landform-like canopy that alludes to Santa Fe’s layered
cultural histories. As an enveloping landscape created from an
aggregation of Kraft paper tubes, experience of the structure suggests
that its formation may have been subtractive, as if through erosion or
excavation. Informed by the regions’ histories of shaping the earth for
dwellings, community and spiritual spaces as well as through mining and
extraction, the temporary structure reconnects threads of Santa Fe’s
history from ancient to contemporary cultures.
Made from recycled and recyclable Kraft paper tubes with a water
resistant coating, the canopy shades the plaza in front of the gallery
in a dappled pattern that changes with the sun’s course across the sky.
A large circular enclosure is located near the building’s main
entrance. The enclosure’s shape is informed by the kiva, and appears to
be carved from the landscape-like mass around it. The shade canopy is
corbeled off of the enclosure and a second support, forming a large
umbrella composed of small circular apertures. The structure’s Kraft
paper tubes are connected along their sides, assembled in modules and
erected in sections. The circular enclosure is covered with a simple
wood and canvas parasol that is notched into the top ends of the tubes.
Presenting a neutral, earth-toned surface to the outside, the tubes’
interiors are colored brilliant turquoise, alluding to the long history
and shifting value of the commodity’s extraction from the region. A
valuable export in ancient times, turquoise became worthless under
Spanish colonization; it competed in value with gold at the turn of the
century, and is now - as a mineral and a color – a commonplace
identifier of Santa Fe’s folk art reputation in the wider world. The
Kraft paper color makes reference to Pueblo adobe architecture and the
landscape itself while the turquoise color, barely concealed as an
interior surface, stands out against the brown paper wrapper. The
contrast can be read as locally and architecturally appropriate while
also allowing that there may be dissonance between Santa Fe’s vibrant
arts identity and its uniform architectural design guidelines. In that
sense this temporary structure is compliant on the outside, and animated
- even potentially rebellious - on the inside, speaking both the city’s
current status and its history of colonization.
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