Adjacent to the outstanding LEED Platinum Center for Urban
Waters in Tacoma, Washington, sits an exceptional new
installation. Designed through a collaboration between artist
Robert M Horner and earth builder Bly Windstorm, The Tidal
Resonance Chamber is a “lab” created to study the tidal forces
that have shaped the space between land and sea. Similar to the
Sound Chamber we featured earlier this year, the project is
inspires its users to connect the built environment with the
natural in an intimate and contemplative way. Made from rammed
earth walls set on a concrete foundation, the space not only
introduces sustainable construction methods and materials, but
it is also able to evoke the mission of the center by
reinterpreting the site’s relationship to the neighboring
waterway. The design is a wonderfully restrained – a sensitive
use of materials paired with an equally sensitive development of
space and context heighten the value of the structure. As the
first rammed earth urban structure in Washington stat