Cupola of Earth1987

Place has force.
Underground forces push the earth's crust outward, causing swelling on the surface of the earth.
Forces constantly push against the earth's skin, projecting it here and there into the sky.
The projected skin is capped with a soft roof.

The skin is extended outward, until it is on the verge of snapping.
It stretches out slender and thin, barely managing to maintain the bond between swollen tip and anchored base.
The paper-thin pillars seem not so much like support of the swollen roof as mooring holding it and preventing it from flying away.
Here, architectural structure does not struggle against gravity.
Gravity seems to be working not downward but upward toward the skies.
The job of structure here seems not for support of the heavy but to hold together parts that might otherwise and drift apart.

A​n​ architecture whose function it is to tie things together: A world like a soup of diverse, indistinguishable ingredients turns into coherent form with the slightest working of that function.
Design elicits that effect; the form takes shape only as a result.