Large Installations - Transition, 2006 - Home End
This was an AIPP commission for the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, Texas. The title refers to the changes we go through when we travel.
As every voyager knows, leaving one's home turf for parts unknown or places highly anticipated, is a time of change. Whether a business trip or a vacation to exotic lands, there's an element of the unknown, a vulnerability to forces outside one's control, and often a sense of release and celebration at the time of embarking. Routine, domestic and work matters, security, all that everyday stuff will give way to flight. Conversely, upon homecoming there's a deceleration and an arrival back to familiar territory, safety, and the known, but as seen now with new eyes; the journey is at last complete.
HOME END
At the "home" end, on the parking garage side, each wall will has an Earth made of native limestone of similar color to that used in the existing landscaping of the airport. Their centers are low, so that a pedestrian will have a sense of being a little tall and above. They each contain a piece of the same granite used on the terminal facade and be surrounded by ceramic and mirror mosaics. Sections of concentric "Space Lines" occur at periodic distances from it, a bit like waves emanating from the shore.