Abbesses Station
Steve Cadman under CC license
Steve Cadman under CC license
No construction photos this time I'm afraid, so I'll just throw in some photos from the night. In fact I don't really remember to many of the details of construction, except that it took a lot longer than I expected as I just made it up as I went along rather than trying to design anything at the start. In fact on reflection I probably could have saved myself quite a lot of time by spending a few hours on a decent drawing.
Both stations were assembled in my back garden, then dismantled more or less to the individual bits of wood and driven to the college (any larger and the pieces wouldn't have fitted in my car). I'll never forget the look on the decoration committee's faces when I unloaded what looked like a huge pile of scrap wood. An hour or so's work had them together again though, followed by a coat of paint and stretching some polythene sheet over the top of each one.
One of the key objectives was to keep them high enough to stop people from touching them - I didn't want any drunk students trying to hang from them. I don't remember the exact dimension but I think both were around 3m tall - the smaller one in the staircase was built in two sections, with the bottom section providing a false bottom step. The larger one had two legs which were clamped to the wall next to the river, then the main canopy which was bolted on top. It took three people to assemble the larger one.
Some photos from the night. From what I remember it rained a bit during the night, but I'd managed to get the polythene fairly taut and so no puddles formed on it.
All photos by Tom Cryer unless stated otherwise
Both stations were assembled in my back garden, then dismantled more or less to the individual bits of wood and driven to the college (any larger and the pieces wouldn't have fitted in my car). I'll never forget the look on the decoration committee's faces when I unloaded what looked like a huge pile of scrap wood. An hour or so's work had them together again though, followed by a coat of paint and stretching some polythene sheet over the top of each one.
One of the key objectives was to keep them high enough to stop people from touching them - I didn't want any drunk students trying to hang from them. I don't remember the exact dimension but I think both were around 3m tall - the smaller one in the staircase was built in two sections, with the bottom section providing a false bottom step. The larger one had two legs which were clamped to the wall next to the river, then the main canopy which was bolted on top. It took three people to assemble the larger one.
Some photos from the night. From what I remember it rained a bit during the night, but I'd managed to get the polythene fairly taut and so no puddles formed on it.
All photos by Tom Cryer unless stated otherwise