Volume helped our good pals at Envelope imagine a new paradigm of mixed-use development under the hot Arizona sun. CHROMA would bring a mélange of commercial, office, residential, and community structures to create a gateway to Tucson’s Miramonte neighborhood and provide an energized destination for locals and visitors alike.
Our site-specific identity uses the visual meter of the building facades as its initial cue, inspiring a custom typeface (developed with PSY/OPS) for the project. Then, it moves past static visual elements to harness light through dichroic glass panels that generate a constantly shifting color palette based on the sun’s position in the sky.
