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Most Outrageous
Project
The photograph
below is of a small mountain we cast in place in what could possibly
have been the world's largest mold, made of 2 pound density, rubber
coated EPS styrofoam. We made the mold in California, shipped it to
Hawaii, and poured in hundreds of thousands of pounds of intrinsically
colored grout over a matrix of rebar. The powder pigment alone required
was some 17,000 pounds. The cast sculpture is nearly solid (except for
three void vaults in the center) and measures 136 feet long by 22 feet
high by 20 feet deep. It is part of an educational and interpretive
Navajo Indian Memorial located in Na Aina Kai Botanical Garden and
Sculpture Park which is slated to be open to the public in 2010.
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Above is a detail photograph of the far right side. Note the color
striations (called stratigraphic columnization) which aid in the
convincing qualities of the simulated sandstone. We achieved
this by pouring 2 lifts of alternating colors each day for over a
months time. Also worthy of noting is the 550 pound boulder which is
precariously balanced over the edge (actually held in place by a
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Below you can see a partially de-molded section just to the left of
the dead end canyon. Note the pick up truck in the background for a
scale reference. |
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To the left is the stainless steel armature, being lifted with a
forklift that we placed in the center of a separate mold that formed
the 80,000 pound stone arch bridge. We cast this element 16 feet in
the air nearing the end of completion. |
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Below are two detail photos of
the finished stone arch bridge-the steel armature is now inside of
it (for the next several thousand years).
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