Richard Serra · I am Identified by Steel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- Richard Serra often constructs site-specific Installation, frequently on a scale that dwarfs the observer. His works challenge viewers' perception of their bodies in relation to interior spaces and landscapes, and his work often encourages movement in and around his sculptures.
His most famous sculptures is the "Torqued Ellipse" series, which began in 1996 as single elliptical forms inspired by the soaring space of an early 17th century Baroque church in Rome. The sculptures are made of huge steel plates bent into circular sculptures with open tops, they rotate upward as they lean in or out.
Serra usually begins a sculpture by making a small maquette (or model) from flat plates at an inch-to-foot ratio: a 40-foot piece will start as a 40-inch model. He often makes these models in lead as it is "very malleable and easy to rework continuously." He then consults a structural engineer, who specifies how the piece should be made to retain its balance and stability. The steel pieces are fabricated in Germany.The steel he uses takes about 8-10 years to develop its characteristic dark, even patina of rust. Once the surface is fully oxidized, the color will remain relatively stable over the piece's life.
There will only be one Richard Serra, ever.
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I agree. I'm a welder fabricator / ironworker. I've been hanging high steel such as large structures and skyscrapers up to about 890 ft. 890 ft is the highest I've ever worked. Anyway, he said each one of those way 51 ton. I don't know if I believe that or not. I understand that they're 8 in thick, 60 ft long I think you said and however tall. They're massive, so yes they would be very heavy. But I just wonder if they are not Hollow, you can weld for metal plates together and put the cap on one end and welded solid and then fill it full of foam, then will the other end solid and when you pick on it with a hammer it sounds like it's solid. You cannot tell the difference.
They obviously had to build some type of foundation underneath and then place the slabs of Steel on top of the foundation and then build the building around the art because there's no way they could have put those inside unless they built the walls first and then place the are inside and then built the roof on top, but either way they would have had to build the building around the art. Secondly, there are six of those, that's 306 ton the amount of work, especially the money that would go into just the floor / Foundation underneath the concrete that they put these pieces of Steel on top of would be immense. And you're not talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars you're talking about millions of dollars to do something like this. Take a parking garage for instance, a 100 foot by 100 foot section of a parking garage on the basement floor, which is the foundation, is about 20 to 60 feet below the ground. They have to build it with steel and reinforced concrete that deep in order to be able to hold the weight of the steel and concrete structure along with the thousands of tons of vehicles on top. If you get a parking garage that has 2000 cars and each one of them weighing over two tons each and some pickup trucks weigh 7 and 8000 pounds, that's a lot of weight. Now, since he is put these 51 ton slabs of Steel and such a small space Oh, it would have to be even more reinforced underneath then it would be if you were putting 360 none over a large area such as a structure. I would be willing to bet that just the foundation of this building was around 18 to 22 million dollars. And that's just me doing your roof calculation off the top of my head from what I know of bulk pricing of building large structures. this video doesn't show the Monumental undertaking that would have had to have taken place to build something like this. And I know you're thinking to yourself, look how many millions of tons of skyscraper is, for instance the World Trade Center. Do a Google search on the foundation or a TH-cam video would be even better of how the foundation of the World Trade Center was built. It will blow your mind on what we have to do to build a structure. Or should I say what has to take place before the structure can start to be erected. The foundation is the key of a building. You should look up a TH-cam video on what it takes to build an earthquake resistant Skyscraper. The foundation specifically
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