Stahl in der Bildhauerei - Tragwerksentwurf der Skulptur "le chemin de l'eau" in Paris

Steel in sculpture - Structural design of the sculpture "le chemin de l'eau" in Paris.

Aggelika Korovessi, a prominent Greek sculptress, designed a sculpture to be permanently exhibited outside a public building in Paris. The sculpture is an abstract geometric composition from stainless steel and rests on a basis which is submerged in water. The individual parts are composed from welded thin-walled rectangular hollow sections with variable heights that are connected by short tubes. The sculture was fabricated in Athens, divided in two pieces because of transportation reasons and assembled on site in Paris. This paper reports on the design and construction of the artwork.