Pour day at the Lotus: the birch forms on the ground, one man crossing them with a screed, another finishing a petal, the square base cast at the centre.

For applicants · Lead installer

Show the work. Then we talk.

Across
28 ft
Petals
8
Concrete
9 yd³
Pour
One morning

You applied to lead installs

Show the work. Then we talk.

Noon casts concrete fountains and courtyards. The shop runs like a dojo: nobody talks their way in. Look at what we build, then send three things.

Across, the Lotus28ft
Cast petals, in two rings8
By chute, one morning9yd³
Fountains at Towne Twin, on one rill3

The eight trades · one shop

Survey, drawing, carpentry, concrete, stone, water and planting, in the same hands, on the same ground.

01ReadThe ground, in layers
02DrawCAD, to the inch
03FormBirch, bent to the line
04PourOne morning, no second draft
05StoneLimestone, cut by hand
06StrikeThe pattern, tamped in
07WaterBasins, jets and a rill
08PlantNatives, into caliche
The Lotus forms set on the prepared ground, the crew working inside them.
Fig. 01 · The forms, set to the drawing
The Lotus as built, seen straight down.
Fig. 02 · As built, straight down

See it built →The Lotus, on film →

The gate · Three things, within a week of applying

01Three photos

Things you built with your own hands. One line on each.

02One job that went wrong

And what you did about it. Five lines.

03One problem

A cast basin has to cross a lawn and sit dead level on a slope. What do you bring, and what do you do first?

The basin600lb
Of lawn to cross40ft
Machines on site0
On a slopeLevel

There is no right answer to 03. We are looking at how you think when the plan runs out. Most of all, at whether you can manage yourself.

Pay · By the value you produce

An hour, by what you produce$15 to $50
Training first, at the low endPaid
Lead installer, as posted$25 to $30
ProvidedTools
Send the three thingshello@noon.bioThree photos, the job that went wrong, the problem. Or text them210-309-2684Photos by text are fine.
ReplyWithin a week of applyingNothing is read after.
The limestone rill at Towne Twin Village, in flower.

Going on now · Sheet L-3 · Towne Twin

A public planting morning around the three fountains Noon built at Towne Twin Village. Saturday, October 24, 9 to 11 AM, 4711 Dietrich Road, San Antonio. Open to anyone: noon.bio/volunteer

Not the job and not a tryout. Coming does not make you hired.

The gate
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