Foundation

The preferred site, in the historical flood plane of the Chama River, required a special floating foundation held together with post tensioned steel rods. This in essence allows the earth to move and flow around the building without endangering its stability. We are thinking in geological time once again.

Founding a building is always a major event. It is an attempt to fix something in a location on the changeable earths crust for a long, long time. To do this we create a series of rifts in the earth,  then fill them with our best approximation of bedrock, i.e., reinforced concrete. The final ingredient is a dash of genuine hope. You get one shot; there aren't second chances with this part of the process. Major.