history project

The site I have chosen was inspired by the Milgard Family Trust building located at the edge of campus where Commerce street  is once again opened to traffic albeit one way at this point. 1701 Commerce is the address. Originally this was the site of the passenger terminal for the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1889 before Union Pacific bult the terminal across the street in 1902. The terminal was moved in 1894 and the building we see today was built in 1894 and first housed the Teamsters Union hiring hall, remember this was still when teamsters drove a team of horses hitched to a wagon not trucks. Subsequent uses for the building include a bicycle shop and a automobile service station. I wanted to include the wheel in this site specific installation while focusing attention on the keystone shape of the building. While communing with the site, taking pictures and making contact with the spirits of the site, I became aware of the similarity of our own Keystone building. an enlarged reflection of the Teamsters Hall.
These two buildings are like arrows pointing toward each other; so naturally I undertook to determine the vector point of their intersection.
The three parts of this history project seek to integrate the buildings, bring awareness to their harmony. Two vertical cellophane, glass like, triangles will be placed to complete the imagined point of their respective shapes while the point of their intersection will be demarcated by a circle or wheel on the edge of the walkway which leads the pedestrian from WCG to Dugan.