Near the edge of the University of British Columbia cliffs, a park tells the story of an ever-changing landscape and the search for repose. After analyzing the Angle of Repose, which is the steepest angle at which a sloping surface of loose material is stable, I was inspired to create a fountain with these changing angles to share the story of how the stability of UBC’s cliffs have changed over the last 100 years.
The park is situated between one of UBC’s entrances and the forested cliffs to create a narrative between an urbanized and unurbanized space. Angles gradually get larger near the end of the fountain to form into a large performance space, water then flows through the performance space and into a pond that surrounds the stage.
