Erecting Open Channel Flow
Ten hours of crane time over two days was what it took Metalab to assemble the Open Channel Flow sculpture. Three major vertical supports were first placed that set the datum 21′ above grade upon which the tripod assembly was placed with the boom crane extended. On a bucket lift we placed the fasteners with relative ease. The accuracy of this maneuver was carefully orchestrated but ultimately was possible through the digital fabrication of a jig that exactly set the bolt pattern in the concrete footings placed in the ground below prior to the delivery of the steel pipe components.
View from the bucket lift…
A safe landing, skate park and Houston skyline looking on
Looking over the shower head…
Camera tilt to fit it all in… not the bucket lift
Matthew Geller, Artist
Some of the crew: MG, Joe, James the Crane and Juan in hardhat.
Shower head cantilever extension
Open Channel Flow topping out at over 50′, that’s AV down by the steps
