Project Status
                                       
2008
We are currently building a chamber at the top of the Star Tunnel. A lot of geometry converges at the top of these 11 stories of stairs! When you arrive in this chamber you will have already climbed up the Star Tunnel stairs, which are in exact alignment with the axis of the earth. You will also be in the apex of the Solar Pyramid.

We have 2 interns at Star Axis this summer. Andrew Goett is a junior at RISD, and Lana Fee graduated from NYU last year. They are creating a scale model of the interior of this chamber. In the mean time, the crew of stonemasons working at Star Axis are building a full scale plywood model of the chamber so we can understand how its geometry interacts with the rest of Star Axis.
 
Fundraising Contact
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Charles Ross
Biography
Art work


 Connecting with
the past History
of architecture that
is tunned to the sky
 
The Land

 Searched for land in Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico.


 


Purchased Chupinas Mesa
in New Mexico.
 

Aerial surveys

Completed aerial surveys and topographic mapping of site Built five miles of road Began excavation of conical wedge and channel for Star Tunnel Began building rim of cone.

 

Star Tunnel

Constructed southwest buttress and perfected astronomical alignment Completed stone entrance for Star Tunnel Completed east rim retaining wall and buttress.
 

Solar Pyramid -Hour Chamber

Completed west rim retaining wall and buttress Erected permanent survey towers for Solar Pyramid.
Began granite facing of Solar Pyramid and construction of entrance to Hour Chamber.

  

 

Completed the Hour Chamber and most of the Solar Pyramid.

 

Equatorial Chamber

Completed the floor of the Star Tunnel, began building the walls of the Star Tunnel, and built the Equatorial Chamber to the Star Tunnel.
 

 

Complete the walls and spine of the Star Tunnel.
 

Star Axis is in the final stages of completion: the staircase must be fabricated and placed within the Star Tunnel; next comes the completion of the Solar Pyramid; placement of a precise rim around the top of the cone; defining and grading the Shadow Field; landscaping the site; and preparing for visitor accommodation.

 

 

 

 
 
   
   
         
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