Through the design of the entry courtyard for Beaverton City Hall, a brief social history of the town is rendered in local materials. Flanking one side of the doorway, a large cedar log from a local mill makes a sculptural transformation into public seating, while on the opposite side a wisteria vine envelopes the image of a computer chip. Entering City Hall and walking between the transformation of trees into the marketable product of lumber and images of an inevitably obsolete technology subsumed by nature, is a metaphor for change.
