Trilith, Georgia
It is a continuous flowing form with two arches and a multi-faceted shiny surface that glints in the sunlight and reflects viewers’ images back to them.
Trilith’ s developers commissioned the sculpture specifically to be a focal point of the development and to represent the community’ s spirit of creativity and unlimited possibilities.
“ The sculpture represents the Trilith logo and symbolizes the identity and grand opening of the entire development,” said Williams.“ It is a distinctive architectural feature and one of the most uniquely constructed sculptures that the Superior-Heaton team has worked with.”
Though made entirely of stainless steel, the Beacon’ s four individual sections were not designed to be self supporting during transit and erection.
That meant that this project’ s main hurdle was figuring out how to transport and assemble the sculpture’ s sections intact.
The sculpture’ s highly polished surfaces and unique geometry required special packaging, supportive metal framing and extra-careful handling during transportation and installation.
On its surface, the job seemed straightforward.
Superior and Heaton needed to pick up each custom-fabricated section of the sculpture at the artist’ s studio outside of Atlanta, drive about 20 minutes to the Trilith site, mount it onto anchor bolts, and then support all the sections until the sculptor could weld them together into the finished piece of art.
As with many projects, the challenge came in the details.
“ The arch is a unique shape that required us to calculate where to put the rigging points so each section would lie level as we handled it for transport and to also stand vertically as we installed it,” said Williams.“ Given the polished condition and unique geometry of the sculpture, we couldn’ t rig directly to the pieces.”
Framing the Answer
Combining Superior-Heaton’ s rigging and lifting experience with Hart’ s understanding of the Beacon’ s structure, the team decided that the best solution was to protect each section with a custom-designed steel frame that would provide both support and rigging points without inducing any pressure.
Custom Frame and Tender Care
The primary goal was to create a frame that would keep each arch
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