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Grand Rapids, Michigan (2020) (unbuilt project)

Tertiary is an installation proposal that celebrates the overlap of separate cultures and architectures sharing a common location, specifically looking at historical architecture that contains more contemporary institutions and energies. The juxtaposition of the contemporary and the historical is re-presented with the construction of a series of layered aggregations and substrates that re-creates the materiality of a neoclassical stone facade with a two-sided concept that generates a third, tertiary effect.

The formal, systemic basis for the project starts with a regular grid of consistently sized shapes, progresses to a regular grid of randomly sized shapes, and then overlaps two sets of the same grid against each other, slightly offset so as to promote the opportunity of a moiré to emerge from the interaction between the two layers. Through a process of digitally fabricated casting and molding, the construct is realized as an assembly of discrete units each with individually differentiated geometry but shared materiality. The layers combine to create a new system, in which shapes are understood through perforations in overlapping surfaces.

The installation is able to be several different things at once: a physically constructed whole, a collection of several layers, thousands of aggregated parts, as well as an immaterial effect.

This project was completed in collaboration with:
Travis Williams - Principal in Charge, Project Manager
Kasey Vliet - Design
Elpis Wong - Design
Trevor Herman Hilker - Design

TERTIARY