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“Elevator Core,”
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Rachel Hecker, 2000,
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Stainless Steel and Lighting,
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George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Terminal B.
Rachel Hecker redesigned the Terminal B elevator core, cladding the elevators in the ticket lobby in an accordion-fold stainless steel structure. The form is evocative of a Chinese lantern or a box kite. The work utilizes cobalt blue lighting, referencing runway lights, to further define this space as the center point of the renovated ticket lobby.
Hecker says of the project:
“The artwork is integrated as a seamless component of the terminal upgrade... As an interior “first point of entry,” the core is not only a vertical transport system, but a progression from a quiet, dark, carpeted, low-ceiling, below-grade spatial experience on the ITT level to the highly active, bright, multi-functional, civic-scaled lobby...The design changes the profile of the elevator shaft, draws the eye upward and transforms the experience of moving up and into an attenuated space.”
The design and engineering of the project was in collaboration with Gensler Associates, and fabricated by Berger Iron Works Inc.
Rachel Hecker is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston's Department of Art. She received a BFA from Moore College of art and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Hecker has numerous public commissions including the works "11-K" at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas and "Fill Every Pause" at the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas.
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