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Elevator Core by Rachel Hecker is a redesign of the cladding of the Terminal B elevator core, creating an accordion lantern-shape to the elevators in stainless steel. Blue lighting referencing runway lights are used to further define this art.
“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,” artist Rachel Hecker explains. |
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Elevator Core by Rachel Hecker |
Hecker is an associate professor at the University of Houston’s Department of Art. She received a bachelor of fine arts from Moore College of Art and a master of fine arts 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. | 
