This collaboration, the first with Jorge Rigau, FAIA Arquitectos, explored the power of mixing narrative and typography with architecture’s spatial meaning. The unrealized proposal meant to honor women in the history of Puerto Rican. As such, part of the earth grows out, revealing those who came before us: slaves, collectors, teachers, weavers, indians, and others. The back wall was meant to exhibit the names of those women who today we know as trailblazers in our culture.

Typography adapted for the monument. Intended to be sandblasted onto glass.

Render of the proposed monument.

Elevation and floorplan for the monument, with typographic interventions marked.

Sample of elevation of area for typographic intervention.