# Noon — the profile, in the site's words

Use these as written. Same order everywhere: the sacred line first, what and in what second.

**Name:** Noon Fountains & Courtyards (legal: Noon Systems Corporation, a Texas public benefit corporation)
**Mark:** `card/src/` — the circumpunct (`avatar`: `portfolio-kit/youtube/avatar-800.png` on ink; or the ivory one already on YouTube) and the wordmark `noon-wordmark.svg`. Never the ∞ alone.
**Banner:** `portfolio-kit/banner-2560x1440.png` (safe area 1546 × 423 in the middle; crops to any wide shape).
**Handle:** @noonsystems on Instagram; @noonfountains on YouTube.
**Email:** hello@noon.bio · **Phone:** 210-309-2684 · **Site:** https://www.noon.bio · **Start a project:** https://www.noon.bio/contact/
**Place:** San Antonio & the Texas Hill Country, Texas, USA · Hablamos español
**Categories to tick:** concrete; fountains and water features; courtyards and hardscape; landscape design-build; public art; religious / sacred spaces

## One line (under 100 characters)
Cast concrete fountains, courtyards and shrine platforms. San Antonio & the Texas Hill Country.

## Short (about 300 characters)
Noon designs and builds cast concrete fountains, basins, courtyards and shrine platforms in San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country. One small practice draws the geometry, builds the forms and pours the concrete with its own crew. Build what you hold sacred.

## Long (about 900 characters)
Noon is a design-build practice in San Antonio making cast-in-place concrete for the ground people hold sacred: fountains, basins, courtyards, shrine platforms. The same hands draw the geometry, build the formwork and place and finish the concrete, because concrete gives one try and exactness only survives when the drawing and the pour belong to one practice.

The work sits in the Texas Hill Country and the city: a 28-foot lotus of eight cast petals, poured in one morning, as the platform of a shrine; three fountains linked by a hand-laid limestone rill, running as a closed loop on a hundred watts of sun, for a supportive senior community; a courtyard huerta planted into caliche under live oaks with nothing synthetic; a stone-lined bioswale that takes a street's storm. Commissions from $10,000. Design and construction, San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country. Hablamos español.

Build what you hold sacred.


# The Lotus — the facts every form asks for

| Field | Answer |
|---|---|
| Project name | The Lotus |
| Type | Shrine platform; outdoor sacred landscape |
| Location | Texas Hill Country, Texas, USA (give the town only if the owner agrees) |
| Client | The patrons of a Shirdi Sai Baba shrine [name or organisation, or "private client"] |
| Designer and builder | Noon Fountains & Courtyards, San Antonio (Noon Systems Corporation); [Dorian's full name], designer and builder — omit on blind entries |
| Size | 28 ft (8.5 m) across; 8 petals; the shrine base 4'-6" square at the centre |
| Material | Cast-in-place concrete, 9 cubic yards, pebble joints between the petals; birch laminated formwork |
| Poured | 28 May 2026, in one morning: truck at 10:30, nine yards placed by chute, ground by five, 6½ hours on site |
| Completed | [June 2026] |
| Design | Eight petals set radially on a 14 ft radius, two rings of petals around a square plinth for the dhuni (the sacred fire), geometry drawn from the lotus Baba taught |
| Formwork | Each petal cast against a family of laminated birch ribs bent to the drawing, one jig per curve, faces sealed, every rib numbered |
| Photographs | Noon (drone and phone); no outside photographer to credit |
| Film | "The Lotus", 1 min 16, at https://www.noon.bio/works/lotus/ [YouTube link once uploaded] |
| Website | https://www.noon.bio |
| Contact | hello@noon.bio · 210-309-2684 |


# Captions, one per picture (also usable as alt text)

Pictures 01–18 are the entry set (Faith & Form takes 18); 19–21 are extras. Remade 2026-10-08: see README.

| File | Caption | Crop centre |
|---|---|---|
| lotus-01-plan-cad.png / .pdf | The plan as drawn: eight petals in two rings around the square plinth, the setting-out circle through the petal tips, 28'-0" across. The lines carry the colours of the CAD model. |  |
| lotus-02-site-plan-sheet.jpg | The working site plan: the platform set on the axis of the shrine, with the setting-out dimensions. |  |
| lotus-03-design-geometry.jpg | Design geometry: the eight petals set out on concentric circles and eight axes, the fire at the centre. |  |
| lotus-04-on-axis-from-the-air.jpg | The Lotus and the shrine's pavilion on one axis, from the air. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-05-straight-down.jpg | The Lotus from straight above: eight cast petals around the square base, pebble joints between them, under live oaks. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-06-straight-down-close.jpg | The centre from straight above: the plinth for the fire, the inner ring, the petals meeting at the joints. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-07-through-the-oaks.jpg | The platform seen through the live oaks. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-08-low-and-wide.jpg | The platform low and wide, the pavilion's plaza at the edge. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-09-petal-tips.jpg | Petal tips at ground level: the cast edge and the pebble joints. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-10-the-fire-lit.jpg | The platform in use: the fire lit on the plinth, the shrine's pavilion beyond. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-11-fresh-pour-from-above.jpg | Pour day from above: the eight petals placed and screeded, the surface still wet, the finisher at the plinth. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-12-pour-at-ground-level.jpg | Pour day at ground level: the chute over the forms, the crew at the plinth, the shrine behind. | 0.42,0.50 |
| lotus-13-half-poured-from-above.jpg | Half poured, from straight above: birch forms on one side, fresh concrete on the other. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-14-the-chute.jpg | Nine cubic yards by chute: the truck at the edge of the site, the chute over the forms. | 0.62,0.50 |
| lotus-15-forms-set.jpg | The forms set on the prepared ground: one family of laminated birch ribs to each petal, the mesh going in. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-16-forms-and-plinth-from-above.jpg | The plinth and the forms from straight above. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-17-ribs-in-the-shop.jpg | The ribs in the shop: laminated birch, bent to the drawing on a jig made for each curve. | 0.50,0.42 |
| lotus-18-forms-laid-out.jpg | The eight petal forms laid out dry on the yard to check the figure before the haul. | 0.50,0.56 |
| lotus-19-plan-drawing.png / .pdf | Plan at scale, black line on white: eight petals in two rings around the square plinth, 28'-0" across. |  |
| lotus-20-plinth-from-above.jpg | The plinth and the inner ring from above. | 0.50,0.50 |
| lotus-21-low-orbit.jpg | The whole figure from a low pass. | 0.50,0.50 |
