Murmuration at Pacific Place, Seattle.
Murmuration
We fabricated the aluminum support frame for Susan Zoccola’s four-story suspended sculpture.
Pacific Place · Seattle- Artistic concept
- Susan Zoccola
- Aluminum frame fabrication
- Western Iron Works
- Dimensions
- 65′ × 30′ × 10′
- Commissioned by
- Pacific Place Partnership
- Project architect
- Gensler
The artwork
Inspired by birds in flight
Susan Zoccola’s Murmuration takes its form from the shifting patterns of birds flying together.
More than 2,100 acrylic spheres, finished with aluminum leaf, form a four-story composition of reflective shapes suspended through the Pacific Place atrium on stainless steel rods and cables.
- Artwork materials
- Acrylic spheres, aluminum leaf, stainless steel rod and stainless steel cable.
Our work
How we built the frame
We fabricated the overhead support frame from 3½-inch aluminum pipe, with a grid of ¼ × 2½-inch aluminum flat bar welded inside.
The grid provides attachment points for the cables that suspend the sculpture.
Fabrication by Western Iron WorksAluminum support frame
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