GLO apartments- Los Angeles part2
Recap: Installed teak cabanas and bar at the Glo Apartments in downtown LA for Myhre Group Architects in August.
Part2 involved this solid teak bar with Corian top and accompanying jumbo cabana.
This cabana was HUGE. 9ft tall! It was nerve wracking assembling it on site and erecting the thing because it is so heavy and tall. I had a system using 2×4s to create temporary bracing which allowed me to slide the parts closer to each other with ratchet straps in unison moving very slooooowly. Any racking and the teak could break.
I actually had not mocked up the fabric with any of the cabana structures before I had left for LA. Stupid yes, but I had no choice. The fabric arrived late from Italy setting off a chain reaction of stress which led to the finished fabric elements arriving as the freight truck was arriving, leaving no time to even open the package. I flew down knowing I would have to wing it on site- nothing new there!
The first problem I encountered was that the pitch of the tensile roof was not adequate to keep water from pooling. If you ever estimate the minimum pitch for a fabric roof- double it! On the spot we devised an elegant solution: pull the center up reminiscent of the Olympic Stadium in Munich!
On site we made yet more design decisions on how to thread the cable through the grommets around the corner areas. The details on these jobs are fun to figure out and refine. How materials come together, fasten, secure and relate to one another has to be built to built to be truly optimized. Cant do that sitting at a computer. Often, I feel that its these little things that are super subtle that no one would seemingly ever notice MAKE good design.
December 7th, 2009 21:43
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December 17th, 2009 20:33
I agree with the non conformist approach you have done here. The wood looks really good too, very smooth and flawless looking.