Commission for seaweed shaped seating elements
(concept design by Suzanne van Ginneken),
side tables and coral tree sculptures (design Peter Broeren) for public swimming pool 'De Vallei' in Veenendaal, The Netherlands
How to get from THIS:
To THIS:
In 7 months.
Seating some 125 people
Take about 50 cubic meter PUR foam blocks
Start drawing
Implementation drawing large seating elements (seats almost 70 people)
Four seating elements
for the North wall
This one seats about 25 people
Then you start to saw, shape, cut, turn etc.
Et Voilà
First part cut
39 more to go
on and on
and on and on and on and.....
About 40 elements
Then you start sanding
some more sanding
and fine tuning
All seating elements get a thick polyester coating
And a white topcoat
Don't forget to number them
and to sand everything one more time (or two)
Time to put the big seaweed seating element together for the first time
The BIG ONE
And the small one too
LETS PAINT
First some Red
Then some Light Blue
Dark Blue
And finally some Apple Green
View from above
Ready for transport
Reaching....
FINAL DESTINATION
get everything inside
and position all elements in the right spot
Glue, polyester, sand, paint for two weeks
And there you are
What about those coral tree sculptures?
Get some chicken wire, polyester resin and fiberglass mat
and start sculpting
and of course sanding and fine tuning
Apple green and coral red
Reaching its final position
Three coral trees
and a guest
small sculpture 41 cm high
THE SIDE TABLES
Sulfer Yellow, Dark Blue, Light Blue, Apple Green, Coral Red an Ruby Red
Thanks to:
Frank, Sander, Suzanne, Hans, Victor, Nick, Ron and everyone who helped me bringing this Pool Project to a successful conclusion.
