Friday, April 13, 2012

Architectural detail: Pebbles at column base

Here's a column detail from the same project that I showed yesterday and Wednesday.
[Hutker Architects]
I was really fascinated by the stones.  What do they do?  Are they functional?  Do they protect the steel plate?  I asked a coworker, and he determined that they're mostly decorative.  They hide the base plate and might help with drainage, but they're really not doing much otherwise.  That said, I thought this might be nice way to display a rock collection.

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